Doing Family on the Move
Highly-Skilled Migrants in Switzerland and Germany
Florian Tissot
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.
List of Figures
List of Figures
Figure 5 Gender and Migration Binaries
Figure 6 Family, Elementary Family, Couple
Figure 7 John’s and Aurelia’s Mobile Background
Figure 8 Open Codes and Excerpts
Figure 9 General Map Situating Frankfurt am Main and Geneva
Figure 10 Map of the Geneva Region
Figure 11 Map of the Frankfurt Region
Figure 14 Continuum of Relocations of the Primary-Mover
Figure 15 “Total-Move” and “Half-Move”
Figure 16 The Types of Move of the Secondary-Mover
Figure 18 Mobile Trajectory of Pedro and Marta
Figure 19 Mobile Trajectory of Xavier and Laurianne
Figure 20 Mobile Trajectory of Richard and Andrea
Figure 21 Mobile Trajectory of Annisa and Adrian
Figure 22 Mobile Trajectory of Maria and Franz
Figure 23 Mobile Trajectory of Manon and Charles
Figure 24 Collective Family-Work Integration or Family-Strategy
Figure 25 Mutually Exclusive Model
Figure 26 Opposing “Migrant” and “Highly-Skilled Migrant”
Figure 27 Impacts of Children in a Difference-in-Differences Event Study Design
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