Why read Gender, Migration and Social Transformation?

Book cover of Gender, Migration and Social Transformation: Intersectionality in Bolivian Itinerant Migrations

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Intersectionality can be used to analyse whether migration leads to changes in gender relations. This book finds out how migrants from a peri-urban neighbourhood on the outskirts of Cochabamba, Bolivia, make sense of the migration journeys they have undertaken.

Migration is intrinsically related to social transformation. Through life stories and…

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1 author picked Gender, Migration and Social Transformation as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Michele Ruth Gamburd

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This book gets at questions near and dear to my own ethnographic explorations, namely how migration changes gender roles in households. Women don’t leave home without figuring out care for young children and frail elders. Tanja Bastia looks at how Bolivian families handle the challenge of transnational parenting. Grandmothers often fill in for their migrant daughters (there’s the aging connection!), and migrant women struggle to balance their financial opportunities with the social stigma of having ‘abandoned’ their children in search of wealth.

From Michele's list on migration and aging.