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Gender and Family Among Transnational Professionals
Author(s): Anne Coles (Editor), Anne-Meike Fechter
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 26 Sept. 2007
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 258 pages
- ISBN-10: 041539600X
- ISBN-13: 9780415396004
Book Description
While interest in migration flows is ever-growing, this has mostly concentrated on disadvantaged migrants moving from developing to Western industrialised countries. In contrast, Euro-American mobile professionals are only now becoming an emergent research topic. Similarly, debates on the connections between gender and migration rarely consider these kind of migrants. This volume fills these gaps by investigating impact of relocation on gender and family relations among today’s transnational professionals.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“…This is indeed an important and essential work for those interested in the anthropology of development, and I recommend it highly.”
– Frank A. Salamone, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
About the Author
Anne Coles is a Research Associate at the International Gender Studies Centre in the Department of International Development, Oxford University. She edited, together with Tina Wallace, Gender, Water and Development (2005).
Anne-Meike Fechter is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex. Her publications include Transnational Lives: Expatriates in Indonesia (2007).
