Raghuram, Parvati
(2008).
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1002/psp.472 |
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Abstract
here is a growing literature on female labour migration, but much of this focuses on women who move to work in labour-market sectors where a large proportion of workers are women. This paper argues that there has been much less study of women who migrate to work in male-dominated sectors of the labour market, and explores the nature of this lacuna within research on female migration. It then highlights the increasing presence of women migrants in the ICT sector as one example of an area that has received little study. Finally, the paper explores some reasons why a study of female migrant's experiences in male-dominated sectors of the labour market is important, and what it can add to existing research on female migration more generally. In particular, it urges us to view gender as it intersects and overlaps with other social divisions to produce complex landscapes of female mobility.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| ISSN: | 1544-8444 |
| Keywords: | gender; migration; male-dominated sectors; labour market; ICT; India |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Social Sciences > Geography |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG) OpenSpace Research Centre (OSRC) |
| Item ID: | 10334 |
| Depositing User: | Users 2030 not found. |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jan 2008 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2010 20:07 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/10334 |
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