Interrogating Intersectionalities, Gendering Mobilities, Racializing Transnationalism
About this ebook
Bringing a transnational lens to studies of migration from an intersectional perspective, the contributors focus on how power geometries, articulated through sexisms and racisms, are experienced in relation to a migration and/or minority context. They also challenge the rather fixed notions of what constitutes an intersectional approach to the study of oppressions in social interactions. Finally, the book’s inter- and multi-disciplinary range exhibits a variety of methodological ‘takes’ on the issue of transnational intersectionalities in migration and minority context. Taken together, the volume adds theoretical, empirical and historical insight to ethnic, racial, gender and migration studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.
About the author
Laura Oso is Senior Lecturer and coordinator of the Sociology of International Migration Research Team (ESOMI) at the Universidade da Coruña, Spain. Her research has focused on the study of migration, gender and labour markets (domestic service, sex work, ethnic entrepreneurship), migration and development, and the intergenerational social mobility strategies of migrant families.
Ramon Grosfoguel
is a Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is internationally recognized for his work on the decolonization of knowledge and power, as well as for his work in international migration and the political-economy of the world-system.Anastasia Christou
is Associate Professor of Sociology at Middlesex University, London, UK. She has conducted research in the United States, UK, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Cyprus, France, and Iceland. Her most recent book is Counter-diaspora: The Greek Second Generation Returns ‘Home’ (with R. King, 2014).
