Gender Innovation and Migration in Switzerland

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-01625-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 96 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 263 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Migration History

This open access book analyses migration and its relation to socio-political transformation in Switzerland. It addresses how migration has made new forms of life possible and shows how this process generated gender innovation in different fields: the changing division of work, the establishment of a nursery infrastructure, access to higher education for women, and the struggle for female suffrage. Seeing society through the lens of migration alters the perspective from which our past and thus our present is told—and our future imagined.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Falk, Francesca

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Conceptual Clarifications.- 3. Changing Gendered Divisions of Work.- 4. Nurseries.- 5. Higher Education.- 6. Female Suffrage.- 7. Conclusion: An Awareness of Alternatives.

Über Autor(innen)

Francesca Falk is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.