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CITIZENSHIP, MIGRATION AND GENDER: Polish migrant women in the UK and Poland
Ewa Duda-MikulinPhD Student/GTASocial Policy [email protected]
• Accession 8 (A8) migration to the UK has been studied extensively over the last few years
• Migration from the new EU member states to the UK has been one of the most significant social phenomena of recent times
The UK and Accession 8 (A8) migration
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• Evidence suggests that migrant women constitute a large proportion of international migrants
• When considering migration within the European context, migrant women already outnumber their male counterparts
Feminisation of Migration
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Evidence suggests that characterising women as passive followers of migrant men is flawed
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• Gender is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, forces shaping human life and, accordingly, it influences migration and migrants’ lives.
• Nonetheless, gender has been regularly sidelined in scholarly research on international migration over the past 100 years.
(Pessar & Mahler, 2003, p. 812)
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• Gender and gender roles, in particular in relation to A8 migration, remain an under-researched area
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Aim: to explore the impact of the migratory
process on gender roles of Polish migrant women
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• Can migration be a catalyst for change in traditional gender roles?
• How do Polish migrant women negotiate their gender roles across time and space in regard to work and welfare responsibilities when exercising their rights as EU citizens?
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• Are gender roles reconfigured through the migratory process?
- care- paid work
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Methodology:
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• Feminist methodology• Qualitative, in-depth, semi-structured interviews
• Research questions:1. To what extent are Polish migrant women’s lives gendered?
2. Has the migratory process affected Polish migrant women’s gender roles, and if so, in what way?
3. How, if at all, has migration impacted on Polish migrant women’s roles as carers and workers? How do they manage their roles over time and space?
• Sample: 2 groups of women:
1) – Polish migrant women in the UK - migrants
2) – Polish migrant women in Poland – returnees
Ewa Duda-Mikulin
PhD Student/GTA
Department of Social Policy
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://salford.academia.edu/EwaDudaMikulin
Twitter: @EwaDudaMikulin
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• Morokvasic, M. (2004). ‘Settled in Mobility’: Engendering Post-Wall Migration in Europe. [Electronic version]. Feminist Review, 77, pp. 7-25.
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