Detalles del documento

Imprima y guarde

Artículo de periódico

Between hearts and pockets: locating the outcomes of transnational homemaking practices among Mexican women in Canada's temporary migration programmes

Fecha

2013

Autores

Kerry Preibish y Evelyn Encalada Grez

Resumen

Temporary migration programmes (TMPs) contain features such as reduced costs and the social legitimation of regularized entry that allow women, including the very poor, to access transnational livelihoods. For mothers, taking up opportunities for employment abroad inevitably involves ‘transnational homemaking’, the set practices involved in caring for family relationships and maintaining household economies across borders. In this article, we examine the transnational homemaking practices undertaken by rural Mexican migrant women employed in highly masculinized TMPs in Canada, tracing how they construct and maintain household economies across borders through a delicate (re)negotiation of reproductive roles and responsibilities with non-migrating kin in Mexico. We find that migration yields material and subjective benefits that enable the expansion of their citizenship across multiple dimensions ranging from the economic to the sexual. At the same time, as racialized, gendered, migrants from the global South, their labour and status in Canada are highly precarious. The advantages derived from transnational migration are thus tenuous, limited, and contradictory.

Journal title

Citizenship Studies

Volumen

17

Número

6-7

Conexiones

Los sectores económicos

Agriculture and horticulture workers y General farm workers

Tipos de contenido

Estadísticas sobre el trabajo y las condiciones de vida

Los grupos destinatarios

Los investigadores

Relevancia geográfica

México y National relevance

Esferas de la actividad

Socioligie

Idiomas

Inglés