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November 7, 2022
Lectures Series "Female Skilled Labor Migration Across the Globe" - 7 November 2022, 5-7 pm (CET), hybrid event
From: Megha Wadhwa <wadhwa.megha@gmail.com>
Date: 2022/11/02
Dear all,
Our team at https://quamafa.de has organised a lecture series at the Interdisciplinary Center for East Asian Studies at Goethe University that will begin on 7th November 2022. The lecture series theme is "Female Skilled Labor Migration Across the Globe".
Our first lecture on 7th November 2022 is hybrid and you can also participate online.
7 November 2022, 5-7 pm (CET), hybrid event "Gender and Skilled Migration: Histories and Changing Modalities" with Prof. Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex University) and Prof. Parvati Raghuram (The Open University)
Please register using the following link: https://forms.gle/
And for more information please visit: https://quamafa.de/upcoming-
Our team at https://quamafa.de has organised a lecture series at the Interdisciplinary Center for East Asian Studies at Goethe University that will begin on 7th November 2022. The lecture series theme is "Female Skilled Labor Migration Across the Globe".
Our first lecture on 7th November 2022 is hybrid and you can also participate online.
7 November 2022, 5-7 pm (CET), hybrid event "Gender and Skilled Migration: Histories and Changing Modalities" with Prof. Eleonore Kofman (Middlesex University) and Prof. Parvati Raghuram (The Open University)
Please register using the following link: https://forms.gle/
And for more information please visit: https://quamafa.de/upcoming-
Further events in this lecture series include: (Times mentioned are all CET)
* 28 November 2022 (6pm; virtual): Qulsom Fazil "Stories across three generations of British Pakistani females living in the UK"
*15 December 2022 (6pm; in person): Anja Weiß "Socio-spatial autonomy of female skilled migrants"
*16 January 2023 (6pm; virtual): Yonson Ahn "Caring with emotion: Korean nurses in Germany"
* 06 February 2023 (6pm; in person): Radha Sarma Hegde "License to dream: Skilled mobilities and the politics of gender"
More on the lectures series theme -
There is a fierce global competition for the best brains, grounded in the belief that the skills of these workers will lead to innovation and a competitive edge for a nation's economy. At the same time the integration of these well-educated workers is imagined as seamless. In the early academic research and policies, there was an underlying belief that the "skilled" worker was a male, white, single individual - if he had a family, his wife was a trailing spouse. This assumption shifted in the early 2000s, when an increasing number of scholars pointed out that female skilled migrants were not a part of the discourse, despite making up a significant share of skilled migrants. Even within the population of female skilled migrants, this population consists of professionals with heterogeneous racial, ethnic and national backgrounds. This lack of attention was partly due to a blind spot in the literature until then, and also because of the way skills were defined - namely, often technology/educational certificate-centered professions that were most often sought out by men.
More on the lectures series theme -
There is a fierce global competition for the best brains, grounded in the belief that the skills of these workers will lead to innovation and a competitive edge for a nation's economy. At the same time the integration of these well-educated workers is imagined as seamless. In the early academic research and policies, there was an underlying belief that the "skilled" worker was a male, white, single individual - if he had a family, his wife was a trailing spouse. This assumption shifted in the early 2000s, when an increasing number of scholars pointed out that female skilled migrants were not a part of the discourse, despite making up a significant share of skilled migrants. Even within the population of female skilled migrants, this population consists of professionals with heterogeneous racial, ethnic and national backgrounds. This lack of attention was partly due to a blind spot in the literature until then, and also because of the way skills were defined - namely, often technology/educational certificate-centered professions that were most often sought out by men.
In this lecture series, we seek to reassess the gender imbalance of skilled migration research. What has changed since scholarship called for awareness to migrating women's skills in the early twenty-first century? How have perceptions about skilled migrants as 'men' shifted (or not)? In which professions have skilled female migrants entered the scene? How do female skilled migrants integrate into the host society especially in skilled male-dominant sectors? How does the intersectionality of gender, class, and race play out in skilled professions? How have family migration dynamics changed? Has the institutionalization of childcare facilities and policies targeting gender equality and equal pay contributed in changing the picture of gender in migration? The lecture series invites scholars, practitioners and anyone interested in gender and migration around the globe to an inspiring round of lectures and critical discussions on the topic and introduces the audience to gender in skilled migration in Germany, Europe and around the globe.
Best wishes,
Megha Wadhwa, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Institute of East Asian Studies
Japanese Studies
Freie Universität Berlin
Hittorfstr. 18
14195 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 30 838- 51409
Visiting Fellow
Institute of Comparative Culture
Sophia University Tokyo
Getting Pregnant and Giving Birth: The Journey of Married Indian Migrant Women in Japan (International Journal of South Asian Studies 2022)
Finding their niche: Unheard stories of migrant women (Documentary Trailer 2022)
Research Associate
Institute of East Asian Studies
Japanese Studies
Freie Universität Berlin
Hittorfstr. 18
14195 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 30 838- 51409
Visiting Fellow
Institute of Comparative Culture
Sophia University Tokyo
Getting Pregnant and Giving Birth: The Journey of Married Indian Migrant Women in Japan (International Journal of South Asian Studies 2022)
Finding their niche: Unheard stories of migrant women (Documentary Trailer 2022)
In the Age of COVID-19 - Indian restaurants and the Indian cooks in Japan (The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus 2020)
Collection of articles for The Japan Times
Collection of articles for The Japan Times
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