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“A chambered nautilus”: The contradictory nature of puerto Rican women's role in the social construction of a transnational community

Marixsa Alicea

Gender and Society 11 (5):597-626 (1997)

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Global Care Work and Gendered Constraints: The Case of Puerto Rican Transmigrants.Elizabeth M. Aranda - 2003 - Gender and Society 17 (4):609-626.details Through in-depth interviews with 41 middle-class Puerto Rican transmigrants, this research examines how gender constrains global care work. Migration compromises embeddedness in care networks, concurrently heightening its meaning. Women felt these effects more acutely than men given their primary responsibility for reproductive work. Migrants engaged in emotion work to cope with constraints, strategically rearticulating care work; yet unsuccessful strategies resulted in further emotional dislocation, particularly for women. Migration led to a dichotomy in which professional success was pitted against emotional fulfillment (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation
Caregiving In Transnational Context: “My Wings Have Been Cut; Where Can I Fly?”.Miriam Stewart, Karen Hughes, Margaret Harrison, Anne Neufeld & Denise Spitzer - 2003 - Gender and Society 17 (2):267-286.details Migration often requires the renegotiation of familial and gender roles as immigrants encounter potentially competing values and demands. Employing ethnographic methods and including in-depth interviewing and participant observation, the authors explore the experiences of 29 South Asian and Chinese Canadian female family caregivers. Caregiving was central to their role as women and members of their ethnocultural community. The women were often engaged in paid labor that compressed the time available to fulfill their duties as caregivers. Women’s role in the transmission (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
Puerto Rico: Feminism and Feminist Studies.Alice E. Colón Warren - 2003 - Gender and Society 17 (5):664-690.details In this article, the author presents some of the counterpoints between historical developments and feminist studies in Puerto Rico since the 1970s, elaborating on the most recurrent topics. She includes a brief historical overview of Puerto Rico and the trends in women's status, feminism, and feminist studies in the Island. Next, she provides a brief summary of general theoretical and methodological issues. Then she discusses research on specific topics, including the intersections of gender, nation, race, class, and sexuality; women's employment (...) Download Export citation Bookmark
International Migration, Domestic Work, and Care Work: Undocumented Latina Migrants in Israel.Adriana Kemp, Silvina Schammah-Gesser & Rebeca Raijman - 2003 - Gender and Society 17 (5):727-749.details This article discusses three major dilemmas embedded in women's labor migration by focusing on undocumented Latina migrants in Israel. The first is that to break the cycle of blocked mobility in their homelands, migrant women must take jobs that they would have never taken in their countries of origin, despite uncertainty about possible economic outcomes. The second dilemma is that the search for economic betterment leads Latina migrants to risk living and working illegally in the host country, forcing them to (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 4 citations

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