| Title |
Subjectivities of highly skilled lead, tied, and equal migrant mothers / |
| Authors |
Kačkutė, Eglė |
| DOI |
10.1111/gwao.13166 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Gender, work and organization.. Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons Ltd.. 2024, Early Access, p. [1-16].. ISSN 0968-6673. eISSN 1468-0432 |
| Keywords [eng] |
accompanying spouses ; career advancement ; highly skilled migrant mothers ; mothers and work ; subjectivity ; trailing spouses |
| Abstract [eng] |
Professionally mobile individuals tend to migrate for career purposes at the prime age of reproduction. This article focuses on highly skilled migrant mothers from different cultural backgrounds living and working in Geneva. The article argues that they inhabit and internalize their identities as―lead, tied, and/or equal―migrants and this impacts ways in which they come to develop their professional and maternal subjectivities. Highly skilled migrant mothers who identified with their tied migrant status developed a neoliberal professional and maternal subjectivity, whereas those who had internalized the lead or equal migrant ideal subjectivities developed liberal feminist professional and maternal selves. The typology of postfeminist/neoliberal versus liberal feminist migrant mothers' subjectivities helps us to better understand the feminist potentials for migration of highly skilled mothers. |
| Published |
Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons Ltd |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2024 |
| CC license |
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