Doing Family on the Move: Highly-Skilled Migrants in Switzerland and Germany

ISBN-13: 9783034339186 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 358 str.

Florian Tissot

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Construction of gender hierarchies under the conditions of mobility - Professional career and family life coordination - Reflexive approaches on expatriation and highly-skilled migration - Discourses on gender and mobility - Representing migration: Between mobilities and anchors - Family-strategies of highly-skilled migrants

O autorze

Florian Tissot studied Sociology and Religion Sociology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, before focusing his research on Migration Studies at the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies of the University of Neuchâtel. There, he did a Master and successfully wrote a dissertation in collaboration with the University of Frankfurt, Germany.