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oapen-20.500.12657-423542021-07-07T13:56:27Z Doing Family on the Move Tissot, Florian FAM Migration, immigration and emigration Gender studies: men and boys Sociology: family and relationships Gender studies: women and girls bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFN Migration, immigration & emigration bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSJ Gender studies, gender groups bic Book Industry Communication::V Health & personal development::VF Family & health::VFV Family & relationships 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. 2020-10-01T19:51:36Z 2020-10-01T19:51:36Z 2020 book ONIX_20201001_9783034339872_261 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42354 eng application/pdf n/a 9783034339872.pdf Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 10.3726/b16724 10.3726/b16724 e927e604-2954-4bf6-826b-d5ecb47c6555 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) 358 Bern 10BP12_198034 Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Swiss National Science Foundation open access
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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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