Vital conjunctures, shifting horizons: high-skilled female immigrants looking for work
Vital conjunctures, shifting horizons: high-skilled female immigrants looking for work
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DOI：
10.1177/0950017008099781
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发表时间：
2009-03-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Liversage, Anika
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作者：
Liversage, Anika
本文聚焦于高技能女性移民这一不发达领域，通过对非工作原因移民的高技能女性的生活故事访谈。这篇文章将移徙概念化为一个“重要的结合点”，一个不同的未来和不同的身份都处于危险之中的关键生命时期，并展示了一些妇女----大多数具有自然科学技能----如何能够保留以前的专业身份。其他妇女面临成为“家庭主妇”的威胁，以不同的方式在劳动力市场的高技能部门找到工作：通过自我再教育;成为其他移民的“文化经纪人”;或返回本国。无法坚持这四种选择之一的女性失去了成为高技能人才的资格。分析有助于我们理解高技能女性移民和身份在社会结构内限制或促进流动的中心地位。
Focusing on the underdeveloped field of high-skilled female migration, this article relies on life story interviews with high-skilled women immigrating for reasons other than work. The article conceptualizes migration as a 'vital conjuncture', a critical life period in which both different futures and different identities are at stake, and shows how some women - mostly with skills from the natural sciences - were able to retain former professional identities. Other women, facing the threat of becoming 'just housewives', found work in the higher-skilled sectors of the labour market in different ways: through rei educating themselves; by becoming 'cultural brokers' for other immigrants; or by returning to their home country. Women unable to follow through on one of these four options lost claims to being high-skilled. The analysis contributes to our understanding of both high-skilled female migration and the centrality of identity in constraining or enabling movement within social structures.