Elgar Companion to Gender and Global Migration

Edited by Natalia Ribas-Mateos, Senior Researcher, TRANSMENA (Research Group), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain and at MESOPOLHIS (Aix-en-Provence, Marseille), France and Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, US

• Contents:1 Introduction to The Elgar Companion to Gender and Global Migration 1Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Saskia SassenPART I BACKGROUND2 A state-of-the-art review and future directions in gender and migration research 24Laura Lamas-Abraira3 Revisiting the gender, migration and development nexus through thecirculation of assets approach 38Laura Oso4 The absent image of women: lacunae in the legacy of French colonialmobilities 49Natalia Ribas-MateosPART II LATIN AMERICA5 Extractivism, forced gendered migration and resistance in LatinAmerica and the Caribbean 84María del Carmen Villarreal and Enara Muñoz6 Women and punishment in Abya Yala 97Elisabet Almeda Samaranch, Clara Camps Calvet and Dino Di Nella7 Scientific mobilities in the twentieth century: Gustaf Bolinder’sphotographs of indigenous women in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta 109Alexandra Martínez8 Embodying ethnic and labor relations: indigenous women and US–Mexico labor mobility circuits in the agrifood industry 124Laura Velasco Ortiz9 Desértica feminista: collision of theories, identity, and [im]migrant–border encounters 133Eugenia Hernández Sánchez and Cynthia Bejarano10 Women’s mobilities: a blacklight on gender and care in the Amazon 147José Miguel Nieto Olivar, Fabio Magalhães Candotti and Flávia Melo11 Lack of opportunities for indigenous young women in Guatemala:forced mobility and absence of social protection systems 161Aracely Martínez Rodas, Ángel del Valle and Ramón ZamoraPART III ASIA12 A study of the lives of internally displaced women after the Fukushima disaster 172Anne Gonon13 Chinese internal migration dynamics as a way of understandingglobalization and gender 180Amelia Sáiz López14 Shifting migrant categories and recast boundaries in China:transnational women in family migration 187Chieh Hsu15 Qualified Brazilian migrant women in Dubai: constraints, agency, andchange in the migratory process 196Raquel Nazário Motta, Marcos Linhares Goes and Jorge Malheiros16 In the eye of the storm: Afghan women and girls navigating displacement 211Mandana Hendessi17 Gender conflict and forced migration in India: human rights perspectives 221Rita Machanda18 Remittances, migration and economic abuse: ‘invisible in plain sight’ 232Supriya Singh and Jasvinder SidhuPART IV AFRICA19 Women and cross-border trade between Angola and the DemocraticRepublic of the Congo 240Asaf Augusto and Lesley Braun20 The Anglophone crisis and migratory patterns in Cameroon: somesocial and economic implications for women 253Tassah Ivo Tawe and Henri Yambene Bomono21 Humanitarian tropes in the Casamance: presumptions aboutgender-based violence in conflict and displacement contexts 264Markus RudolfPART V THE MEDITERRANEAN22 Missing in the Mediterranean: a perspective from Tunisian mothers 277Sofia Stimmatini and Constance De Gourcy23 Origins of extreme violence in Palermo: health (infectious) impact ofthe trans-Saharan/Mediterranean route for women on the move 286Tullio Prestileo and Natalia Ribas-Mateos24 Gender and humanitarian issues in transitional shelter processes: thecases of Syrian refugees and displaced communities by the earthquake in Haiti 300Patricia Muñiz and Luciano G. Alfaya25 Sub-Saharan and Syrian women’s embodying migration experiences inCasablanca 310Fadma Ait Mous, Sana Benbelli and Sarah EttallabPART VI EUROPE26 Globalization and health: gender issues in temporary agricultural work(Huelva) 323Angels Escrivà27 Squatting in a “home”: intersectional struggles of migrant women inLucha y Siesta (Rome) 333Chiara DenaroIndex

‘I find the volume a compelling collection of texts that open up the entanglements of gender, migration, globalization, and labour.’