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‘Doing Gendered Age’: older mothers and migrant daughters negotiating care work in rural Lao PDR and Thailand

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  • Roy Huijsmans

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In this article I analyse the reconfiguration of the intersection of relations of gender and age manifesting between older mothers and their migrant daughters. For this I study the negotiation of care work between differently positioned women, drawing on material from Lao PDR and Thailand. Theoretically I draw on the constructivist notion of ‘doing gendered age’, which allows us to integrate the performance of gender–age subject positions with structural changes, most notably the generational dynamics of rural transformation, an expanding neoliberal labour market and demographic transition. I conclude that gender–age subject positions hold women accountable for ‘doing gendered age’ in a particular manner. This forms an important basis for informal mechanisms of social protection. However, these subject positions are neither pre-given nor voluntary but are enacted through everyday social interaction and subject to change.

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  • Roy Huijsmans, 2013. "‘Doing Gendered Age’: older mothers and migrant daughters negotiating care work in rural Lao PDR and Thailand," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(10), pages 1896-1910, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:34:y:2013:i:10:p:1896-1910
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2013.851952
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    1. Ben White, 2021. "Human Capital Theory and the Defectology of Aspirations in Policy Research on Rural Youth," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 33(1), pages 54-70, February.
    2. Judite Ie & Marit Ursin, 2022. "The Twisting Path to Adulthood: Roma/Cigano Youth in Urban Portugal," Social Inclusion, Cogitatio Press, vol. 10(4), pages 93-104.

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