Mobilities
Volume 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 369-388
Gendered Mobility and Morality in a South-Eastern Mexican Community: Impacts of Male Labour Migration on the Women Left Behind (Article)
McEvoy J.* ,
Petrzelka P. ,
Radel C. ,
Schmook B.
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School of Geography and Development, University of Arizona, 440 Harvill Building, Box #2, Tucson, AZ85721, United States
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Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology, Utah State University, Logan, United States
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Department of Environment and Society, Utah State University, Logan, United States
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El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Abstract
Based on research conducted in a migrant-sending community in south-eastern Mexico, we find that male out-migration has forced women to take on labour tasks that are associated with new spatial and mobility patterns. While these patterns have potential for increased empowerment for women, they also call the women's morality into question, resulting in a policing of the women's behaviour, and a simultaneous restriction of their mobility, by themselves and others. Therefore, we find male labour out-migration has resulted in contradictory changes in women's mobility, with ambiguous results for women's gender empowerment. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84864701986&doi=10.1080%2f17450101.2012.655977&partnerID=40&md5=2ff357104153f8e351cbdcfa50cfa03c
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.655977
ISSN: 17450101
Cited by: 20
Original Language: English