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WGGP Publications
Recently Published:
Transnational
Migration, Gender and Human Security, by Gale Summerfield,
Development,
2007, 50 (4), 13-18.
Abstract:
Gale Summerfield examines the gender and human security aspects of transnational
migration. Human security is taken here as an emphasis on basic needs,
sustainability of a set of core capabilities and agency of people as
full participants in society, for which gender equity is essential. Summerfield
focuses on two key areas of rapid change: the global labour market for
services and remittances for financing development through a case study
on gender and human security of Latina/o immigrants in central Illinois.
The publisher of the international journal, Feminist
Economics,
is making the new Special Issue on Gender, China, and the WTO available
for free
online for a limited time.
The special double issue is guest-edited by Gunseli Berik (University of
Utah), Xiao-yuan Dong (University of Winnipeg), and Gale Summerfield (University
of Illinois).
 The
special issue explores women's well-being relative to men's in rural
and urban China by looking at land distribution, labor-market
discrimination,
earnings, household decision-making, health, the representation of women
in advertising and beauty pageants, and the consumption of beauty products.
Xiao-yuan Dong, one of three guest editors for the special issue, said, "China
has remarkable economic growth, but tremendous problems with growing
economic and gender inequality. Not much is known about how women compared
with
men are being affected by China's accession to the WTO and other recent
economic reforms. This collection aims to fill that gap."
--Excerpted from NewsBrief, http://www.iaffe.org/resources/article.php?id=305
Publications
from WGGP Symposia:
Globalization,
Transnational Migration, and Gendered Care Work, a symposium in Globalizations,
September, 2006, Volume 3, Number 3.
 Excerpts
from the Preface: Care of children and the elderly, health care, domestic
labor, and other forms of care work are increasingly being done as paid
work involving transnational flows of people...The same processes that
increaase cross-border supply through the disembodied export of labor
in EPZs (export processing zones) or outsourcing of IT (information technology)
service work also promote the embodied supply of care work through transnational
migration... Millions of women are relocating for work, sometimes
acompanying their spouses/partners,
but often separated from their families for years.
This trend is exacerbated by government policies that promote separation
in order to increaase the likelihood of remittances, which are often
a key source of foreign exchange earnings as well as redistribution of
income from the wealthier countries...
Table of Contents: Preface -- Guest Editors; Globalization,
Transnational Migration, and Gendered Care Work: Introduction -- Jean L. Pyle,
U Mass Lowell; Globalization and the
Increase in Transnational Care Work: The Flip Side -- Jean
L. Pyle, U Mass Lowell; The
Globalization of Carework: Neoliberal Economic Restructuring and Migration
Policy -- Joya Misra, John Woodring, and Sabine
Merz, U Mass Amherst; The
Balance of Care: Trends in Wages and Employment of Immigrant Nurses
in the US between 1990 and 2000 -- Mary Arends-Kuenning,
U Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Nursebots to the Rescue? Immigration,
Automation, and Care -- Nancy Folbre, U Mass Amherst; At Both
Ends of Care: South Indian, Hindu Widows Living with Daughters and
Daughters-in-law in
Southern California -- Lata Murti, U Southern
California.
 Gender
and Human Security: Latina/o Immigrants in the Midwest, A
Special
Issue
of Perspectives: Research
Notes and News, a
publication of Women
and Gender in Global Perspectives
Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
May 2004, Volume 24,
Number 2.
 Risks
and Rights in the 21st Century,
WGGP
symposium papers on human security available in the International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society (15)
1, Fall 2001.
Other
WGGP Facilitated Publications:
 Aslanbeigui,
N. and G. Summerfield, "Globalization,
Labor Markets and Gender: Human Security Challenges from
Cross-Border Sourcing in Services" in Globalization and the Third World,
edited by B.N. Ghosh and Halil M. Guven, 2006.
 Jaquette,
J. and G. Summerfield, eds,(2006) Women
and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice:
Institutions, Resources and Mobilization,
Durham NC: Duke University Press.
 Desai, Manisha,
ed, (2003) The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide:
Asia and Oceania.
"The Impact of the Responsibility System on
Women in Rural China: A Theoretical Application of Sen's Theory of
Entitlement," (2001)
Gale Summerfield with Nahid Aslanbeigui reprinted from World
Development 1989 in
Lourdes Benería with Savitri Bisnath, eds, Gender
and Development: Theoretical, Empirical and Practical Approaches,
Edward Elgar Publishers,
Cheltenham, UK:
359-366.
"Ester Boserup: 1910-1999," G. Summerfield, in
N. Smelser and P. Baltes, eds, International Encyclopedia of the
Social and Behavioral
Sciences, Pergamon (2001),1293-1295.
"The Asian Crisis, Gender, and the International Financial
Architecture," Nahid
Aslanbeigui and Gale Summerfield, Feminist Economics 6 (3),
2000:89-103.
Women's Rights to House and Land: China, Laos, Vietnam (1999),
Irene Tinker and Gale Summerfield, eds, Lynne Rienner Publishers,
Boulder.
"Housing Reform in Urban China: Gender Impacts and Strategies," Gale
Summerfield and Nahid Aslanbeigui, in Women’s Rights
to House and Land: China, Laos, Vietnam, Irene Tinker and
Gale Summerfield,
eds, Lynne
Rienner Publishers, Boulder, 1999, pp 179-194.
"Gender, Self-Employment and Microcredit Programs: An
Indonesian Case Study," Rosintan D.M. Panjaitan-Driyoadisuryo
and Kathleen Cloud, The Quarterly Review of Economics
and Finance, Special Issue, 1999.
Gender
and Agribusiness Project (GAP):
Case
Study, Cargill Zimbabwe, Kathleen Cloud (1999 ), University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Paper for U.S. Agency for
International Development, http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/gap/Zimcase.Fnl.html.
Gender and Agribusiness Proejct (GAP): Cargill Sun
Valley Case Study (Thailand), John J. Lawler and
Vinita Atmiyanandana (2000 )University of Illinois, Paper
for U.S. Agency for International Development, http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/gap/pdf/sunvalley.pdf.
Gender and Agribusiness Project (GAP): Case Study, International
Cheese Company - Paslek (Poland): A Joint Venture of OSM
Paslek and Land O' Lakes. Hamish Gow (2001), University
of Illinois, Paper for U.S. Agency for International Development,
http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/gap/pdf/poland.pdf.
The Employment of Rural Women in Mutlinational Agribusiness:
Three Case Studies and Some Lessons Learned. Kathleen
Cloud (2001), University of Illinois, Final Report to U.S.
Agency for International Development, http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/gap/finalreport.html.
"Explorations of Multilateral Development Agency Websites
on Issues of Women and Rural Development," Donna Fisher and
Kathleen Cloud, commissioned report for the World Bank,
Rural Week, Washington,
DC, 1998.
"A Modest Proposal for Inclusion of Women’s Household
Human Capital Production in the Analysis of Structural Transformation," Kathleen
Cloud with Nancy Garrett, Feminist Economics Journal,
Fall, 2:3, Routledge, London, 1996, pp.93-120.
Capturing Complexity: An interdisciplinary look at women, households
and development (1994), Kathleen Cloud with R. Borooah,
J. Peterson, A. Verma, K. Srinivason, and S. Seshadri,
eds, Sage.
New Delhi, India,
London and thousand Oaks, CA.
"Women, Households and Development: A Policy Perspective" and "Woman
and Agriculture: Household-Level Analysis," Kathleen
Cloud, in Capturing Complexity: An interdisciplinary
look at women, households and
development. Sage. New Delhi, India, London and
Thousand Oaks, CA, 1994, pp. 60-83, 125-150.
Other:
Perspectives, the WGGP Newsletter, is published once each
semester. It features a research summary by a graduate student
or specialist in the women, gender and international development
field; provides information on activities of faculty affiliates
and student associates at UIUC; and announces conferences, publications
and job openings. The paper is posted on the WGGP web page.
We're All In This Together: The GRID Concentration at the University of Illinois (2000),
Video featuring former and current students of WGGP's graduate concentration,
Gender Relations in International Development, discussing their research
and applied work.
For more information
about the WGGP program and its projects, contact: Kathy Martin kcmartin@illinois.edu
The
Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
320 International Studies Building, MC-401
Phone: (217) 333-1994 |
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