Transnational Labour, Migration, Livelihoods and Agrarian Change in Nepal: The Remittance Village, RameshSunamRoutledge. 2020. 140 pp. £120.00 (hardback). ISBN: 9780367471569

In post-Socialist countries, cross-border labour migration has become a common individual and family livelihood strategy. The paper is based on the analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with two ethnic Hungarian women whose lives have been significantly reshaped by cross-border migration. Focusing on the interplay of gender and cross-border migration, our aim is to reveal how gender roles and boundaries are reinforced and repositioned by labour migration in the post-socialist context where both the socialist dual-earner model and conventional ideas of family and gender roles simultaneously prevail. We found that cross-border migration challenged these women to pursue diverse strategies to balance their roles of breadwinner, wife, and mother responsible for reproductive work. Nevertheless, the boundaries between female and male work or status were neither discursively nor in practice transgressed. Thus, the effect of cross-border migration on altering gender boundaries in post-socialist peripheries is limited.

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Evidence-based regulation of labour migration in OECD countries: setting quotas, selection criteria, and shortage lists

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v11i1.166 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

pp. 11-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Jonathan Chaloff

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Selection Criteria ◽

Oecd Countries ◽

Market Analysis ◽

Multiple Criteria ◽

Labour Migration ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Periodic Review ◽

Market Data ◽

Almost All

The growing complexity of selection criteria for discretionary labour migration in OECD countries has been accompanied by an expanded demand for labour market analysis and consultation with stakeholders. While some features of general or detailed criteria may be fixed in legislation, numerical quotas or targets, shortage lists, and multiple-criteria points-based systems are generally subject to periodic review and revision based on labour market data and consultation with stakeholders. Official government bodies have maintained co-ordination of this process, with varying degrees of externalization. In most countries expertise is internal, with recourse to external mandated bodies rare. In almost all cases, however, the process is designed to promote consensus around the policy while maintaining political control.

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