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Gender and Transnational Household Strategies: Singaporean Migration to China

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  • Brenda Yeoh

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WILLIS K. D. and YEOH B. S. A. (2000) Gender and transnational household strategies: Singaporean migration to China, Reg. Studies 34 , 253-264. Increases in international flows of highly-skilled migrants have been characteristic of the economic globalization process. Professional and managerial employees are in increasing demand as transnational companies expand their locations of operation. However, research on these skilled migrants' movements has been predominantly linked to the firm itself, focusing on the productive sphere alone. This has led to a failure to consider the fact that migration decisions are usually made in the context of a household and that a separation of the productive from the reproductive elements fails to recognize the interdependence of the two sectors and how 'successful' migration depends on both the workplace and the home. This paper addresses this interdependence in the context of Singaporean migration to China using material from interviews with 130 Singaporeans. WILLIS K. D. et YEOH B. S. A. (2000) Genre et strategies menageres transnationales: la migration en provenance de la Singapour et a destination de la Chine, Reg. Studies 34 , 253-264. Les augmentations des mouvements internationaux de migrants bien qualifies caracterisent le processus economique de mondialisation. Les professionnels et les cadres sont de plus en plus demandes au fur et a mesure que les societes transnationales etendent la localisation geographique de leurs activites. Cependant, la recherche faite sur les deplacements de ces migrants bien qualifies s'est rapportee dans une large mesure a l'entreprise elle-meme, ne portant ainsi que sur les aspects productifs. Par la suite, on n'a pas tenu compte du fait que la decision de migrer est prise en regle generale au niveau du menage et que la separation des aspects productifs des aspects reproductifs ignore l'interdependance des deux secteurs et comment une migration 'reussie' depend a la fois du lieu de travail et du foyer. A partir de la documentation provenant desinterviewsaupresde130Singapouriens, l'article aborde cette interdependance dans le cadre de la migration en provenance de la Singapour et a destination de la Chine. WILLIS K. D. und YEOH B. S. A. (2000) Geschlecht und landeruberschreitende Haushaltsstrategien: Wanderung von Singapur nach China, Reg. Studies 34 , 253-264. Zunahmen internationaler, hochqualifizierter Auswandererstrome sind ein charakterischer Zug des wirtschaftlichen Globalisierungsprozesses. Professionelle und leitende Angestellte werden zunehmend in dem Masse gesucht, in dem Nationalstaaten uberschreitende Gesellschaften ihre Betriebsstandorte erweitern. Untersuchungen der Bewegungen fachlich geschulter Wanderer hangen jedoch vorwiegend mit der Firma selbst zusammen, und konzentrieren sich nur auf den Produktionsbereich. Dies fuhrte dazu, dass man vernachlassigte, den Entschluss, auszuwandern, normalerweise im Rahmen eines Haushalts zu suchen, und dass eine Trennung der produktiven Elemente von den reproduktiven versaumt, die gegenseitige Abhangigkeit der beiden Sektoren von einander zu erkennen, und inwieweit 'erfolgreiche' Wanderung sowohl vom Arbeitsplatz wie vom Heim abhangt. Dieser Aufsatz behandelt die gegenseitige Abhangigkeit im Zusammenhang der Wanderung von Singapur nach China, wobei sie sich auf Interviews mit 130 Singapureanern stutzt.

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  • Katie Willis & Brenda Yeoh, 2000. "Gender and Transnational Household Strategies: Singaporean Migration to China," Regional Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(3), pages 253-264.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:regstd:v:34:y:2000:i:3:p:253-264
    DOI: 10.1080/00343400050015096
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