Papers by Denise L Spitzer
University of Alberta Press eBooks, Dec 30, 2011
University of Toronto Press eBooks, Jan 31, 2011
Gender Place and Culture, Feb 15, 2023
Amsterdam University Press eBooks, 2020
Migrant beer sellers in Bangkok, Phnom Penh, and Vientiane engage in multiple contestations over ... more Migrant beer sellers in Bangkok, Phnom Penh, and Vientiane engage in multiple contestations over bodily inscriptions, mobilizations, subjectivities, boundaries, and agency. Their bodies are subject to and shaped by the male gaze of recruitment agents, employers, and customers who can influence beer sellers’ incomes through the power they have to hire and place migrant workers in more or less popular venues, to control their movements and interactions with clients, and, to offer the prospects of patronage. Male customers often challenge bodily boundaries and integrity through unwanted touching, coercive sexual encounters, and encouraged co-drinking while, outside work, their social presentation is often judged as scandalous. These interactions work to shape and to reinforce the hegemonic gendered, racialized, and classed social order.
University of Toronto Press eBooks, Jan 31, 2011
Choice Reviews Online, Jun 1, 2012
Routledge eBooks, Nov 18, 2008
Education has been of central significance to the development of human society. It can be the beg... more Education has been of central significance to the development of human society. It can be the beginning not only of individual knowledge, information and awareness, but also of a holistic strategy for development and change. Education helps an individual to develop his or her potential to the fullest, to increase the productivity and to become useful and resourceful members of the society. Education is holistic in concept and is multidimensional. Due to the technical advancement and social development, the structure of the family organization is changing. These substantial changes have created a new challenging role and status for the Indian women, especially for the middle class women. The structure of the Indian society is undergoing a metamorphosis due to Urbanisation, Westernisation, Industrialisation and Politicalisation. As a member of the family, she has to perform certain traditional roles, apart from taking an active part in economic activity. The provision of educational opportunities for girls and women has been part of the national endeavour since independence. The constitution of India, is clearly committed to the cause of education and unequivocally endorses state intervention to redress an adverse educational scenario. The recent social
American Anthropologist, Nov 24, 2016
Contemporary Sociology, Aug 31, 2015
in cultural innovation because of their experience with multiple cultures. Christine Delhaye, Saw... more in cultural innovation because of their experience with multiple cultures. Christine Delhaye, Sawitri Saharso, and Victor van de Ven describe a lively immigrant popular culture but also a marginalization of ethnic minorities in mainstream cultural institutions. Systematic comparisons between the two cities are limited because the chapter authors, even within a specific section, make little reference to one another’s work. They have mostly taken their assignment as description and interpretation of some aspect of their own city. Hence the cities are not so much compared as juxtaposed. However, each section is introduced by a short essay that summarizes the New York and Amsterdam contributions, and to some extent these introductions raise comparative questions. Unfortunately, the main introductory chapter does not identify or grapple with the intellectual concerns that Foner, Rath, Duyvendak, and van Reekum had in mind as they organized the conference that the volume is based on, nor does it seek to draw conclusions. There is no concluding chapter. This book offers a readable and fairly comprehensive introduction to immigration issues in each city, attractive for students and for readers who are new to the literature on immigration in the United States and in Europe. A large share of what we call ‘‘comparative urban sociology’’ is really accomplished through research on individual cities or countries, and these chapters could profitably be used as case studies from which students might be asked to make comparisons and draw conclusions.
Kavre district, Nepal, is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, including increases in err... more Kavre district, Nepal, is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, including increases in erratic rainfall, drought, floods, and landslides. As gender roles, culture, age, physical and physiological characteristics increase, mainly Nepalese women's and children's, health risks associated with climate change and air pollution, listening to and learning from women is critical. This study explores women's perspectives and lived experiences concerning climate change, consequent adverse impacts on agriculture and health, and ongoing adaptation and mitigation strategies. Assessing perspectives and lived experiences related to climate change can offer opportunities to explore understanding, local beliefs, experiences with adverse impacts and adaptation. We used a descriptive qualitative approach. An equal number of focus group discussions (FGDs, n=8) and key-informant interviews (KIIs, n=8) were conducted. Purposive and snowball sampling were used to recruit participants. F...
Journal of Migration and Health
Global Dimensions of Gender and Carework
Gender, Work & Organization
Thousands of rural‐to‐urban migrant women find employment in urban areas of mainland Southeast As... more Thousands of rural‐to‐urban migrant women find employment in urban areas of mainland Southeast Asia as beer sellers, beer promoters, and karaoke girls whose duties include selling alcoholic drinks, often on commission, and entertaining clients. Using the label of beer sellers to refer to all of these workers, this paper draws from a sequential mixed‐methods participatory study conducted with migrant beer sellers in Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand to examine beer selling as intimate labor. Deploying emotional, affective, and embodied labor as interactive components of intimate labor, migrant beer sellers as members of the urban precariat are subject to myriad forms of surveillance that operate in concert to inform the parameters of beer selling as an intimate industry, the somato‐social presentation of workers' bodies, and their intercorporeal interactions with clients. Together, they work to reinforce gendered and racialized social hierarchies and the normative social order.
The Asian Migrant's Body, 2020
Background: Gender roles affect health worker migration and their migration experiences, but poli... more Background: Gender roles affect health worker migration and their migration experiences, but policy responses have rarely considered the gender dimensions of health worker migration. This invisibility and lack of attention can lead to social, health and labour market inequities. Methods: A Canadian-led research team with co-investigators in the Philippines, South Africa, and India studied the international migration of health workers from these ‘source’ countries through documentary, interview and survey data with workers and country-based stakeholder interviews. Our particular focus was to examine the causes, consequences and policy responses to health worker migration. Here we undertake an explicit gender-based analysis highlighting the gender-related influences and implications that emerged from the literature, policy documents and empirical data. Results: Our data from nurses, physicians, and other health workers reveal that gender mediates health workers’ access and participati...
Background: Gender roles and relations affect both the drivers and experiences of health worker m... more Background: Gender roles and relations affect both the drivers and experiences of health worker migration, yet policy responses rarely consider these gender dimensions. This lack of explicit attention from source country perspectives can lead to inadequate policy responses. Methods: A Canadian-led research team with co-investigators in the Philippines, South Africa, and India examined the causes, consequences and policy responses to the international migration of health workers from these ‘source’ countries through documentary, interview and survey data with workers and country-based stakeholders. Here we undertake an explicit gender-based analysis highlighting the gender-related influences and implications that emerged from the published literature and policy documents from the decade 2005 to 2015; in-depth interviews with 117 stakeholders; and surveys conducted with 3,580 health workers. Results: The literature on health worker migration from South Africa, India and the Philippine...
Journal of Migration and Health
Journal of international women's studies, May 1, 2007
The aim of this paper was to examine, via a scoping review, how the literature focusing on immigr... more The aim of this paper was to examine, via a scoping review, how the literature focusing on immigrant women"s health, based on selected criteria, has been able to capture not only sex and gender differences but also the other socially grounded determinants of health. Using selected health databases as well as a diversity of keywords, a final sample of 59 was obtained after a number of steps to increase validity and credibility of the process were taken. Since "women" was one of the main keywords, all of the studies included women either by themselves (n=20/59) or along with men (n=39/59). In 34 (57.6%) of the papers reviewed, gender was defined above and beyond "sex" (i.e. some discussion was provided regarding the social context of the study population prior to the presentation of the goal of the study). Ethnicity was merely mentioned without being expanded upon and at times being substituted with race in 26 (44%) of the papers reviewed. Migration was defined in 22 (37.2%) of the papers and was predominantly operationalized by length of stay in the country. While the concepts at hand represent important units of analysis within women"s health research, most studies neglected to either capture gender specificities beyond sex as a biological variable, or to define migration experiences beyond ethnic identity. Anchored within women"s health scholarship seeking for conceptual clarity and accuracy, this paper pleads for an improved consideration of the multiple and interactive
McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks, Sep 1, 2012
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