Doing Family on the Move / Florian Tissot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tissot, Florian, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor mobility.

Foreign workers.

Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Switzerland.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Doing Family on the Move

Place of Publication:

Bern, Switzerland : Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2020.

Summary:

This book focuses on the coordination between family life and professional career under the condition of repeated mobilities. It analyses the division between the labour force work and the care work of couples of highly-skilled migrants settling in either Switzerland or Germany.

Contents:

Acknowledgments 11

Abstract . 13

List of Figures . 15

List of Tables 17

1 Introduction . 19

1.1 Relevance of the Study . 20

1.2 Structure of the Study . 24

Theoretical Part

2 Moving with Skills: A Review of the Literature 31

2.1 Historical Overview 31

2.2 Conceptual Overview . 33

2.2.1 State . 33

2.2.2 Employer . 34

2.2.3 Migrants, Families, and Couples . 35

2.3 Highly-Skilled Migration Studies . 36

2.3.1 Dichotomising Migration . 36

2.3.2 Deepening Migration 39

2.3.3 Intermediary Summary: Construction of a Polarisation I . 42

2.4 Expatriation Studies 43

2.4.1 Defining Expatriates 44

2.4.2 Assigned Expatriate and Self-Initiated Expatriate 46

2.4.3 Expatriate Adjustments 49

2.4.4 Intermediary Summary: Construction of a Polarisation II . 56

2.5 Gender and Highly-Skilled Migration . 57

2.5.1 Gender Binaries . 58

2.5.2 Gender as a Dichotomous Variable . 60

2.5.3 Gender as a Relational and Situational Feature . 61

2.5.4 Intermediary Summary: Overcoming the Polarisation 69

3 Decentring the Research on Highly-Skilled Migration and

Expatriation: Three Methodological Premises . 71

3.1 Decentring and Deconstructing . 71

3.2 Methodological Individualism 73

3.2.1 Defining the Family and the Couple . 74

3.2.2 The Hidden Economy of Kinship 77

3.2.3 Doing Family 78

3.3 Methodological Nationalism . 80

3.3.1 Changing the Entry Points . 81

3.4 Methodological Economism . 84

3.4.1 Mobility and Migration 84

3.4.2 Temporal Mobilities and Permanent Migration 86

3.4.3 Defining and Problematising the Skills 87

3.5 Research Questions 91

Methodological Part

4 Research Design 95

4.1 Epistemology . 95

4.2 Methods in Practice 99

4.2.1 Accessing the Field 99

4.2.2 Constructing the Interview Corpus 101

4.2.3 Analysing the Interview Corpus 107

5 Contextualising the Study 115

5.1 Contextualising the Researcher 115

5.2 Contextualising the Lake Geneva Region and Frankfurt RhineMain Region 118

5.2.1 Family Policy in the two Regions 124

Empirical Part

6 Professional Careers Coordination . 137

6.1 Migration Triggering: An Individual Approach . 138

6.1.1 Assigned Expatriate . 138

6.1.2 Drawn Expatriate . 139

6.1.3 Intra Self-Initiated Expatriate 140

6.1.4 Inter Self-Initiated Expatriate 141

6.2 Migration Triggering: A Collective Approach 142

6.2.1 Primary-Mover and Secondary-Mover 143

6.3 Conceptualising the Professional Careers Coordination 145

6.4 Primary-Mover 148

6.4.1 Expat-Move 149

6.4.2 Local-Move . 153

6.4.3 Continuum of the Primary-Mover 155

6.5 Secondary-Mover and Secondary-Stayer 157

6.5.1 Total-Move of a Partner-Initiated Mover . 158

6.5.2 Unique Challenges of a Partner-Initiated Mover 159

6.5.3 Half-Move of a Partner-Coordinated Mover . 165

6.5.4 Immobility of a Secondary-Stayer . 170

6.5.5 Access to the Labour Force 171

6.5.6 Types of Moves of the Secondary-Mover . 179

6.6 Theorising the Professional Careers Coordination 180

7 Representing Migration: Between Motilities and Anchors 183

7.1 Displaying Family . 184

7.2 Motile Narratives 186

7.2.1 Structural Constraints . 187

7.2.2 Career Men and Career Women 195

7.2.3 Paradoxical Family Men . 201

7.3 Anchored Narratives 207

7.3.1 Ignoring Motility . 208

7.3.2 Refusing Motility . 211

7.3.3 After Motility . 215

7.4 Gender and Motility . 221

8 Family-Strategies of Highly-Skilled Migrants 225

8.1 Conceptualising the Family-Strategies . 225

8.2 Motile Family-Strategy . 226

8.2.1 Prioritising one Career . 227

8.2.2 Homemaking and Caregiving 235

8.2.3 Company's Support . 239

8.3 Local Family-Strategy . 248

8.3.1 Low Support for the Care Work 249

8.3.2 Combination of Formal, Informal and Non-Formal Care

Support 252

8.3.3 Separations and Divorces . 258

8.4 Mobile Family-Strategy 264

8.4.1 Succession of Half-Moves . 265

8.4.2 Power-Dynamics . 268

8.4.3 Mobile Family-Strategy and Children 272

8.5 Theorising the Family-Strategies 275

8.5.1 Care Work Organisation and Social Networks 275

8.5.2 Iterative Logic, Path-Dependency, and Conflicts 278

8.5.3 Mutually Exclusive Model 281

Discussion Part

9 Theoretical and Empirical Insights . 289

9.1 Decentring the Literature and the Research Design 289

9.2 Doing Family on the Move 295

9.2.1 Consequences following the Decision to Migrate 296

9.2.2 Narratives Displaying the Division of the Tasks . 299

9.2.3 Family-Strategies 302

10 Recommendations for Practice . 307

10.1 Migration, Children, and Gender Wage Gap . 307

10.2 Childcare in the Geneva and the Frankfurt regions 313

10.3 Family-Friendly Companies . 317

10.4 Summary of the Implications for Further Research and the

Recommendations for Practice 320

11 Conclusion: Motility and Mobility 321

Appendix . 323

Bibliography 339.

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