Gender representations in politics of belonging: An analysis of Swiss immigration regulation from the 19th century until today
Gender representations in politics of belonging: An analysis of Swiss immigration regulation from the 19th century until today
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归属政治中的性别代表：对 19 世纪至今瑞士移民监管的分析
DOI：
10.1177/1468796816676844
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发表时间：
2017
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影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
J. Dahinden
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作者：
Carolin Fischer;J. Dahinden
文献越来越认识到性别在界定民族社会和移民之间界限方面的重要性。但是，对于形成性别作为差异类别的作用的机制的历史和变化仍然知之甚少。基于瑞士的一个重要案例研究，本文探讨了性别是如何牵连在移民入境和融入政治和“其他”的基本概念。利用边界工作的理论，我们表明，不同的行为者动员移民的性别代表性，以推进他们的要求，并要求某种形式的移民控制和移民融合。自19世纪后期以来，瑞士国民和移民的性别代表性从传统的性别观念转向对性别角色的文化化后殖民解释，最近又转向性别平等的规范观念。作为这些变化的一部分，移徙妇女从公众和政治关注的边缘转向核心。与此同时，差异的类别从性别和社会阶层的交叉转变为性别、文化和种族的交叉。瑞士的地方特色--“过度外国化”的观念和直接民主制度--在形成类别方面发挥了重要作用。但瑞士在跨国领域的嵌入也同样重要。本文扩展了最近的研究，并阐明了如何不断变化的动态分类和othering促进建设的国家和民族身份在一个跨国化的世界。
The literature increasingly recognises the importance of gender in defining the boundaries between national societies and migrants. But little is still known about the history and changes of mechanisms that shape the role of gender as category of difference. Based on a critical case study of Switzerland, this article examines how gender is implicated in the politics of migrant admission and incorporation and underlying notions of ‘the other’. Drawing on theories of boundary work, we show that gendered representations of migrants are mobilised by different actors to advance their claims and calls for certain forms of immigration control and migrant integration. Since the late 19th century, gendered representations of Swiss nationals and migrant others shift from classical gender ideas to culturalised post-colonial interpretations of gender roles and, most recently, to normative ideas of gender equality. As part of these changes, migrant women moved from the periphery to the core of public and political attention. Concomitantly, categories of difference shift from the intersection of gender and social class to an intersection of gender, culture and ethnicity. Local particularities of Switzerland – the idea of ‘overforeignisation’ and the system of direct democracy – play a significant role in shaping categories. But Switzerland’s embeddedness in transnational fields emerges as equally important. The article expands on recent research and illuminates how changing dynamics of categorisation and othering facilitate the construction of nations and national identities in a transnationalised world.