Nepali Women and Foreign Labour MigrationJaganath Adhikari , C. Bhadra, K. Gurung, Gurung, Ganesh Gurung, Ganesh, B. Niroula, Seddon, David Seddon, David, 2006 The process whereby Nepali women migrate to foreign countries for work and the consequences of their migration, in terms of its impact on Nepali economy and society, are both poorly understood even though women's migration abroad is not a recent phenomenon. Indeed, women have been migrating on a seasonal, temporary, and permanent basis for more than two centuries.
The research on which this report is based was conducted with a view to enhancing our understanding of the different aspects of women's foreign labour migration. The 'problems' associated with women's migration have been much emphasised by the media, but it is impossible to understand the phenomenon and to develop effective and appropriate measures and mechanisms to support women migrants if we do not have a comprehensive and reliable picture of women's migration as a whole and of its implications for Nepalese economy and society. The research reported here will help build such a picture.
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Developing Gender, Transforming Development
Gender Relevance in Environmental Conflicts
Movimientos piqueteros: alcances de su construcción políticaAda Cora Freytes Frey, Maria Cecilia Cross, 2007 "The article approaches the subject of the significacy of the ‘piqueteros’ movements for the Argentine political field, retaking two habitual axes of discussion in the bibliography. As opposed to the debate about the continuity or rupture that these movements represent with respect to “the traditional” forms of organization of the popular sectors, it is indicated that this type of approach does not allow to understand the complex articulation between past and present that characterizes them. In relation to the controversy on the political effectiveness of its action, it is indicated that they have lastly transformed the perspections about unemployment, archivieng recognition in the public space and generated relevant spaces of social militants."
Revista Política y Cultura 2007, No. 27, pp. 121-141.
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Women in Organisations for Poor, Unemployed Working People
Women's Participation in Argentina's Picketing MovementAda Cora Freytes Frey, Karina Crivelli, 2007 "Based on case study analysis of four picketing organizations in Argentina, this article analyzes the impact of women's participation in the picketing movements, on the ways in which women think about themselves and the social roles they claim. Women's initial involvement in the picketing movements was tied closely to their performance of the traditional roles of mother and wife. Over time, and as a result of women's social participation, these roles acquired new meaning. Women began to reject certain stereotypes linked to the feminine, and to challenge some aspects of the gendered division of tasks and responsibilities. Redefinition of feminine roles, however, has limitations, which are evident through analysis of the unequal participation of women in the movements’ leadership."
Journal of Developing Societies 2007, Volume 23, Issues 1-2, pp. 243-258.
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Gender Based Analysis of Vulnerability to Drought among Agro-Pastoral Households in Semi-Arid Makueni District, KenyaChinwe Ifejika Speranza, 2006 This study analyses how gender relations shape vulnerability to drought in the semi-arid areas of Makueni District, Kenya. The study area is a marginal environment of low argicultural potential and poverty is widespread. The interplay and socio-economic pressures on agro-pastoral households, and the compulsion to conform or to be perceived as conforming to the prevailing gendered traditional rules and norms, influences the capabilities of men and women to secure their livelihoods in non-drought periods. In times of drought, gender relations also shape the coping strategies of women and men in various ways, and the impacts of drought on household welfare challenge the traditional roles of men.
In:Premchander S, Müller C, editors. 2006. Gender and Sustainable Development: Case Studies from NCCR North-South. Perspectives of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South, Bern: Geographica Bernensia, pp. 119-146. PDF download: |
VIH/sida, genre et vulnérabilitéLutte contre la vulnérabilité des femmes infectées par une association de femmes vivant avec le VIH/sida à Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire) Cléopâtre Kablan, Guéladio Cissé, Brigit Obrist, Marcel Tanner, Ismaïla Touré, Kaspar Wyss, 2006 "L'une des préoccupations majeures qui apparaît lorsqu'on s'intéresse au VIH/sida dans les pays du sud, est celle de la vulnérabilité des femmes infectées. Face à cette vulnérabilité, quelles réponses une association de femmes vivant avec le VIH/sida peut-elle apporter ? Pour répondre à cette question, nous avons mené une enquête de terrain auprès d'une association de femmes vivant avec le VIH/sida à Abidjan. Cette enquête qui a combiné approche quantitative et approche qualitative visait à cerner les réponses de l'association face aux risques auxquels sont exposées ces femmes. Les résultats indiquent que face à la vulnérabilité des femmes qui se traduit soit par une rupture des liens sociaux soit par le silence imposé par le risque d'une telle rupture, les soutiens moral, matériel et financier constituent les principales actions menées par l'association."
VertigO - la revue électronique en sciences de l'environnement 2006, hors série 3, Article 6
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"I am the head of the household now"
Gender Aspects of Out-migration for Labour in Nepal  Heidi Kaspar, 2005 Kathmandu, Nepal Institute of Development Studies (NIDS) |
Temporal and Spatial Changes in the Incidence of Agricultural Labourers: A Study in Maharashtra State, IndiaAwanish Kumar, 2009 The present thesis is an attempt to analyse temporal and spatial changes in the incidence of agricultural wage labour in the state of Maharashtra. It aims, primarily, at analyzing changes in the size of the labour force in agriculture and the distribution of these changes across castes and gender.
Conclusions of Master Thesis at Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
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"But now men also listen to the women"
"We could show the men, that we are able to do it"
Medicalization and morality in a weak stateHealth, hygiene and water in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania Brigit Obrist, 2004 "Inspired by Foucault, many studies have examined the medicalization of everyday life in Western societies. This paper reconsiders potentials and limitations of this concept in an African city. Grounded in ethnographic research in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, it concentrates on cleanliness, health and water in a lower middle-class neighbourhood. The findings show that women are familiar with professional health development discourses emphasizing cleanliness as a high value linked to bodily and domestic health. These discourses have been diffused in schools, clinics and other institutions during the colonial and socialist period. Women not only refer to these discourses, they try to reproduce them in daily practice and even demand them. This coercive yet voluntary nature of institutionalized discourses points to 'paradoxes of medicalization' also found in Western societies. It acquires, however, different meanings in a weak state like contemporary Tanzania which hardly manages to institutionalize medicalization through professional practice. Under such conditions, women who choose to follow health development discourses suffer a heavier practical, intellectual and emotional burden than those who are less committed. This may at least partly explain why many women assume a pragmatic stance towards the medicalization of everyday life."
Anthropology & Medicine 2004, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 43-57
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Beyond Economics: Analysing Micro-Finance from Women's Perspectives Using Sustainable Livelihood Framework
Competing Perspectives of Women and Microfinance Institutions: Rethinking Organisational Forms and Capacity BuildingSmita Premchander, 2005 The use of micro-finance as a dominant poverty alleviation methodology and as development tool calls for a reality check. While attention to understanding micro-finance better has produced numerous studies on impact, the evidence available is mixed, ranging “from significantly positive outcomes to almost no change at all”. (Fisher and Sriram 2002: 297) In response there has been a move from “proving” impact to “improving” impact. (AIMS 2000) Insights can be drawn from the findings done by Sampark in Jharkhand and Orissa States, and research done in micro-finance projects of Sampark in Koppal, a northern district of Karnataka State. Two reports of reviews of IFAD supported development projects in India also provide valuable information. The findings point to differing perspectives of women on the one side, and NGO-micro-financing institutions and donors on the other. The question arises whether project designs incorporate the changes that are called for, when such differing perspectives come to the fore.
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Case Studies from NCCR North-South  Smita Premchander, Christine Müller, 2006 Bern, Geographica Bernensia PDF download: |
«El comedor los pibes, una fábrica de Trabajo y de Sueños»  Isabelle Rauber, Norberto Inda, Alvaro San Sebastian, 2007 Buenos Aires, NCCR North South |
Factors Influencing the Gender Disparity in Primary School ParticipationA Case Study in Rupandehi District, Nepal Lilith Schärer, 2005 Master's Thesis, University of Zurich, Switzerland
"This thesis examines the patterns of gender inequality in primary school participation and the different causes for the gender gap in primary school participation in the area of Lumbini, Rupandehi District, Nepal. Within the framework of the goals declared at the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000 of achieving universal primary education by 2015 and eliminating gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005, this study focuses on girls as a social group, which in Nepal, as in many other developing countries, is disadvantaged in educational opportunities. [...]" PDF download: |
Incorporating Gender in Research on Indigenous Environmental Knowledge in the Tunari Nation
Women's right to land ownership in Swat State AreasThe Swat State era and the post-State scenario. Rome Sultan-i-, 2008 <7i>Pakistan Journal of Gender Studies 2008(1): 105-121. |
Coping on women’s back: Social capital-vulnerability links through a gender lensSusan Thieme, Karin Astrid Siegmann, 2007 Processes of migration are embedded in social networks, more recently conceptualised as social capital, from sending households to migrants’ formal and informal associations at their destinations. These processes are often assumed to reduce individuals, households and economies’ vulnerabilities and thus attract policy-makers’ attention to migration management. The paper aims to conceptualise the gendered interface between social capital and vulnerability. It utilises Bourdieu’s notion of social capital as an analytical starting point. To illuminate our conceptual thoughts we refer to empirical examples from migration research from various Asian countries.
Bourdieu’s theory highlights the social construction of gendered vulnerability. It goes beyond that by identifying the investment in symbolic capital of female honour as an indirect investment in social and, ultimately, economic capital.
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Social networks and migration: Women's livelihoods between Far West Nepal and DelhiSusan Thieme, Ulrike Müller-Böker, 2010 Although migration from Nepal has increasingly been the subject of research since the 1990s, there are very few publications about gender and migration in Nepal. We want to contribute to fill this research gap by presenting a case study of women’s livelihoods in the context of labour migration, both as migrants themselves and as women who remain in the villages. The migrants originate from Bajura district of the Far Western Development Region, where migration to India has been a common occurrence for several generations and the economy can be described as “agri-migratory” (Bruslé 2008: 241). The analysis sheds light on women’s individual aspirations as well as their position within their families and communities. It also explores how kinship networks and social capital shape women’s lives and whether migration facilitates social change.
In: European Bulletin of Himalayan Research 35-36: 107-121.
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