Doing Family on the Move Highly-Skilled Migrants in Switzerland and Germany
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ArticlePublication details: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2020Description: 1 electronic resource (358 p.)Content type: - text
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- Interest qualifiers
- Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests
- Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people
- Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples
- Society and Social Sciences
- Society and culture: general
- Social and ethical issues
- Migration, immigration and emigration
- Social groups, communities and identities
- Gender studies, gender groups
- Sociology and anthropology
- Sociology
- Health, Relationships and Personal development
- Family and health
- Relationships and families: advice and issues
- FAM
- Gender studies
- Migration
- Sociology
- family and relationships
- immigration and emigration
- men and boys
- women and girls
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This book focuses on the coordination between family life and professional career under the condition of repeated mobilities. It analyses the division between the labour force work and the care work of couples of highly-skilled migrants settling in either Switzerland or Germany. A mutually exclusive model provides an innovative understanding of gendered hierarchies in career achievement. The male partners operate three parallel elements: an upward professional career, a family-life implying child(ren), and maintaining their availability to further unplanned relocations. The female partners can only coordinate two of these concurrently. In fact, the male partners combine the three elements by taking advantage of specific, and mostly invisible, care work that the female partner provides.
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Funded by: Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
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