2014/09/27 by Jenna L. Hennebry, Jenna Hennebry
Social Sciences · #Diaspora, migration, transnational identity #Migration and Labor Dynamics #Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
paper · doi:10.2753/ijs0020-7659440303
openalex publication_date 2014/09/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Evidence from this ethnographic study suggests that the "migration work" performed by female spouses of guest workers enables temporary labor migration. Findings also indicate that a gendered culture of migration perpetuates dependency on temporary labor migration and extends precarity to spouses of migrant workers within this transnational kinship network.