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Wednesday 22 March 2006 8:30
B-1 ETH20 Gender and Migration I
Room B
Network: Ethnicity and Migration Chair: Marlou Schrover
Organizers: - Discussant: Marlou Schrover
Betty de Hart : Dual Citizenship and Identity
Dual Citizenship and Identity

In academic literature on citizenship, the issue of dual citizenship received a lot of attention. Dual citizenship is discussed from a top-down perspective of the interests of the state and is mainly discussed in its problematic aspects. Dual citizenship is assumed to complicate the relationship between ... (Show more)
Dual Citizenship and Identity

In academic literature on citizenship, the issue of dual citizenship received a lot of attention. Dual citizenship is discussed from a top-down perspective of the interests of the state and is mainly discussed in its problematic aspects. Dual citizenship is assumed to complicate the relationship between individual and state, to undermine the exclusivity of this relationship. Dual citizenship would cause difficulties with dual loyalties, instrumental use of citizenship by immigrants, undermine state sovereignty et cetera. It is also acknowledged, however, that there is no empirical evidence that the problems described in the literature, actually occur in practice. There is some knowledge on the legal rules concerning dual citizenship, but we know little about how these rules work out. Although dual citizenship is considered problematic on a normative level, we know little to nothing about empirical reality. In this paper, I intend to shed some light on this empirical reality, based on interviews with individuals about their experiences with and perception of dual citizenship. By choosing a diverse group, of immigrants, emigrants and mixed couples, of different generations, age-group and gender, we can study dual citizenship from a bottom-up perspective. Experiences with dual citizenship differ considerably, because the rules differ considerably, on the basis of time period, nationality and gender. Why do individuals want dual citizenship, or not? How does it influence their lives, their relationships with significant others, and with the state? Is dual citizenship an expression of dual identities? Of transitional or post-national citizenship? Results suggest that respondents hold on to a traditional conception of citizenship, although they approach the relationship between individual and state in a different, relational manner. (Show less)

Donna Gabaccia : Gender and Interdisciplinary Field-Building in
In 2003, the SSRC funded a working group called „Gender and Migration Theory to explore how and how effectively recent research on gender had
been incorporated across the discipline. A collaboration of historians, sociologists, ethnographers, and representatives from a number of other disciplines and interdisciplinary fields (e.g. American studies, ethnic
studies, legal ... (Show more)
In 2003, the SSRC funded a working group called „Gender and Migration Theory to explore how and how effectively recent research on gender had
been incorporated across the discipline. A collaboration of historians, sociologists, ethnographers, and representatives from a number of other disciplines and interdisciplinary fields (e.g. American studies, ethnic
studies, legal studies) did far more than survey and report on the
explosion of recent literature on gender and migration. The
collaboration revealed but also tried to explain the unevenness with
which gender analysis is being applied across the disciplines.
Methodological and disciplinary „boundary-keeping‰ encouraged gender
analysis in some fields while discouraging it in others. The project
revealed a hidden history of interdisciplinarity that preceded and to
some degree surpassed the SSRC‚s efforts to create „migration studies
as an interdisciplinary field in the 1990s. This paper focuses on the
main results of the working group, calling attention particularly to
tensions between quantitative and qualitative methodologies (and how
scholars interested in gender are attempting to bridge the
methodological divide), to the contemporary and still-very-much gendered
production of scholarly knowledge in migration studies and to the
interdisciplinary practices pioneered in gender analysis of migration. (Show less)

Eleonore Kofman : Gendered Migrations, Social Reproduction and Welfare Regimes: new dialogues and directions
The focus in recent years on migrant domestic labour in the household in much literature on gendered migrations has led to the development of concepts such as global chains of care and a revival of interest in social reproduction and its globalization. More recently, these concepts have been applied to ... (Show more)
The focus in recent years on migrant domestic labour in the household in much literature on gendered migrations has led to the development of concepts such as global chains of care and a revival of interest in social reproduction and its globalization. More recently, these concepts have been applied to more skilled sectors such as nursing. However this conceptualisation of migrant labour hasnít recognised the considerable discussion of gendered welfare regimes and the changing nature of care following Esping-Andersenís typology of welfare regimes. At the same time the literature on gendered welfare regimes has generally ignored the key role of migrant labour in maintaining welfare regimes, that is, that migrants are providers and not just recipients of welfare. This paper thus brings together two analyses which have hitherto not engaged with each other and suggests that such a dialogue opens up new directions in understanding the nature of gendered migrations across a range of sites (household, voluntary associational, public), class positions, skills and sectors. (Show less)

Deniz Ünsal : The Multicultural Ordeal: Race, Nation and Sexuality in Dutch Postcoloniality
This paper investigates the contemporary multicultural Dutch context and how a cultivation of the European self is affirmed in the proliferating discourses on integration and emancipation of the ethnic minorities in the Netherlands. It analyzes the public discussion on cultural difference of ethnic minorities in Dutch society today and inquires ... (Show more)
This paper investigates the contemporary multicultural Dutch context and how a cultivation of the European self is affirmed in the proliferating discourses on integration and emancipation of the ethnic minorities in the Netherlands. It analyzes the public discussion on cultural difference of ethnic minorities in Dutch society today and inquires how these discussions contribute to the renationalization and reconfirmation of Dutch identity.

The postcolonial multicultural Dutch society is composed of postcolonial migrants, refugees and economic migrants. The last category is composed of guestworkers and their families from southern Mediterranean countries such as Morocco and Turkey. These ethnic minorities, and especially migrant and second-generation women, have been the subjects of integration and emancipation policies sustained by scientific and policy-oriented studies in the Netherlands in the last thirty years.

Discourses on the sexuality of Muslim women locate how a middle-class European identity has been tied to notions of being “European” and “white,” and how a discursive mobilization of sexuality of the Other serves to secure and delineate the ideal of modern emancipated Dutch subject of the nation-state.

Based on this argument, this paper reconsiders the processes of nation formation in the Netherlands and how discourses on race and sexuality were remobilized during certain historical periods, such as colonialism. It then asks whether the colonial perspectives on race and sexuality of the colonial Other are reproduced in the discourses on integration and emancipation of ethnic minorities in contemporary Dutch society, and if so, how it is specifically given shape. (Show less)



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