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Doing Family on the Move
Highly-Skilled Migrants in Switzerland and Germany
Author(s)
Tissot, Florian
Collection
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)Language
EnglishAbstract
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. A mutually exclusive model provides an innovative understanding of gendered hierarchies in career achievement. The male partners operate three parallel elements: an upward professional career, a family-life implying child(ren), and maintaining their availability to further unplanned relocations. The female partners can only coordinate two of these concurrently. In fact, the male partners combine the three elements by taking advantage of specific, and mostly invisible, care work that the female partner provides.
Keywords
FAM; Migration, immigration and emigration; Gender studies: men and boys; Sociology: family and relationships; Gender studies: women and girlsDOI
10.3726/b16724Publisher website
https://www.peterlang.com/Publication date and place
Bern, 2020Classification
Sociology
Migration, immigration and emigration
Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples
Gender studies, gender groups
Relationships and families: advice and issues