Family Migration and the Path to an Occupation: The (Early) Experiences of Skilled Taiwanese and Chinese 'Wives'

This book explores the socialization of female family migrants in the host country, focusing on the private sphere and intermarriage couple dynamics. It reveals that female migrants often take on family migrant and wife roles, but also strive to realign with their pre-departure independent selves and regain agency.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 180 pages
Publication date: 01 February 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book delves into the unseen early post-arrival phase of female family migrants, often perceived as low-skilled or professionally inactive. By focusing on the experiences of Chinese and Taiwanese women who married German men, it explores how the private realm, characterized by intermarriage dynamics and native-foreigner relations, becomes the primary setting for women's socialization in the host country. Interactions with their intimate partners within the family sphere shape both their self-perceptions and their employment intentions. Drawing from interviews with migrant women and their spouses, the author outlines the subject positions that shape female migrants' attitudes toward external constructs and their entry into the labor market. The study reveals that female family migrants often assume roles that permeate intimate relationships and hinder their employment aspirations, yet they also strive to align with their pre-departure independent selves and regain agency. This volume, examining gender dynamics and labor market entry among newly arrived female migrants, holds appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in gender, migration, and work.

Weight: 300g
Dimension: 157 x 232 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367516109