When the Light of the Home is Abroad: Unskilled Female Migration and the Filipino Family     

Maruja Milagros B. Asis  Shirlena Huang  Brenda S.A. Yeoh 《Singapore journal of tropical geography》2004,25(2):198-215

The migration of women engaged in transnational domestic work reveals how the uneven impacts of globalisation have intruded into the micro‐world of families and households. In this age of globalisation and migration, family membership has become multisited or transnational, with members dispersed in space. The migration of workers and the separation this entails has raised challenges to notions and ideals of “being family”. Unlike other workers on the move, the migration of domestic workers has some distinctive characteristics. It can be framed in terms of women moving between families and households; workers whose departure from their family of origin and insertion into their family of employment reconstitute the structure and content of family relationships in both material and imagined ways. Drawing on in‐depth interviews conducted in the Philippines and Singapore, we explore how migrant women and their family members define and negotiate family ideals, gender identities and family relationships, given the family's transnational configuration. Our findings provide some support to the notion that individual members in transnational families resort to “relativising” in fashioning responses to their situation.  相似文献   

城市外来低收入移民安置与自下而上城市化发展   总被引：8，自引：4，他引：4  

田剑平  许学强  赵晓斌  陈振光 《地理科学》2002,(4)

中国在由二元经济社会跨入现代经济社会的过程中 ,众多的农村人口向城市流动和转移 ,已经给中国社会和城市发展带来严重的影响。通过对广州市和东莞市两市三个层次的一般抽样调查和 5 0个镇村的重点调查和分析 ,以城市外来低收入移民为研究和安置的对象 ,提出了适合中国情况的自下而上的开发性移民自助安置模式 ;并分析了自助安置模式对城市发展的影响 ,提出了一种在城市地域发生的自下而上的城市化理论发展假设。  相似文献   

营造新的经济增长点 广开就业门路     

赵悟  胡邕芳 《南方国土资源》1998,(2)

随着经济体制改革的不断深入,企业进行产业结构和经济结构调整的步伐明显加快,下岗职工逐年增加。如何安置下岗职工再就业已是社会性重大问题。党的“十五”大提出了做好就业再就业工作,最根本的是发展经济、拓宽渠道、创造岗位、增加就业机会。国家经济发展只有保持适度的增长速度,才是宽松地解决就业与再就业的大前提。  相似文献   

广州城市居民地方依恋测度与机理   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

吴蓉  黄旭  刘晔  李志刚 《地理学报》2019,74(2):379-393

“地方依恋”问题涉及地理学、心理学、社会学、城市学等多个学科,已经成为中国快速城市化时期亟待解决的重要问题。伴随大城市内部空间的剧烈重构,城市居民对其居住空间的地方依恋也在不断变化,需要进行深入研究。本文选取广州23个典型社区,通过量表测度居民的地方依恋,并采用结构方程模型等计量方法,探索社区信任、社区满意度等要素对居民地方依恋的作用机理。同时,系统对比了居民对于不同空间尺度的地方依恋,如社区尺度和城市尺度,并对本地居民和外来移民两组人群的地方依恋及其差异进行了系统研究。研究发现：① 城市居民的社区依恋程度高于城市依恋程度;② 本地居民的社区依恋和城市依恋程度均明显高于外来移民;③ 城市居民的社区依恋同时受到社区信任和社区满意度的直接影响,但两者需通过社区依恋的中介效应间接影响居民的城市依恋;④ 社区信任与社区满意度对外来移民的社区依恋和城市依恋均具有显著作用,但对本地居民的城市依恋作用较弱。基于实证结果,本文认为,相同因素对于不同尺度的地方依恋作用机理存在差异,不同人群的地方依恋机理亦有不同,地方依恋同时具有尺度差异性和群体差异性。  相似文献   

Human capital requirements in Singapore's international financial centre     

Gordon Kuo Siong Tan 《Singapore journal of tropical geography》2023,44(3):539-554

International financial centres (IFCs) are regarded as important nodes in governing global flows of money and capital. With increased globalization and rapid technological changes, the rivalry among IFCs has further intensified competition for financial labour—as a concentrated pool of highly skilled finance workers in an open and flexible labour market is crucial to sustaining the competitive dynamics of these urban financial hotspots. This study investigates the importance of different skills and tasks in financial work. Based on surveys and interviews conducted among Singapore's IFC workers, the findings show that cognitive, interpersonal communication and managerial-leadership skills and tasks are more important in financial work, whereas programming, mathematics and systems-based skills are perceived to be less important. Additionally, a network visualization of finance occupational skills obtained from Singapore's national skills database reinforces the importance of cognitive and relational skills in that sector. Higher-order cognitive and relational skills are expected to become even more critical as the financial sector undergoes rapid digital transformation, reinforcing the importance of IFCs as agglomerations of skilled finance talent.  相似文献   

进城务工人员购物活动时空特征解析——以南京市为例     

吉倩妘  黄杰  祝贺  吴晓 《地域研究与开发》2022,41(1):60-66

以南京市进城务工人员为研究对象,在宏观把握其社会经济及空间概况的基础上,分析其线下购物的时空特征及典型时空轨迹。结果表明:(1)时间特征上表现为以低频购物为主;购物时段集中在上下班途中及休息日下午;购买低等级商品时对出行时间较为敏感,约为10 min;购买高等级商品时对出行时间不太敏感,多集中在1 h内。(2)空间特征上表现为购买低等级商品时对出行距离较为敏感,约为0.5 km,购物活动空间较为集聚;购买高等级商品对出行距离敏感性较低,购物出行空间较为分散。(3)时空轨迹上表现为单纯购物活动的购物场所及出行空间等级均较低,购物时长较短,购物时段的连续性在工作日要高于休息日;多目的购物活动的购物场所及出行空间等级则较高,购物时长较长,购物时段集聚度较高。  相似文献   

STUDY ON THE MIGRANT LABOUR FORCE OF CHINA IN RECENT YEARS──A Case Study of Nanhai City of Guangdong Province     

阎小培 《中国地理科学(英文版)》1997,(1)

I.INT~IOWFOralOngthe,thesyStemofPermanentresidencempistrationhasdividedChineseampleintOthO8ewith"tirbanresidence"andthOSehaving"rUralresidence".TherationingsyStem,underwhichedibleoilandgrainwasdistributedonlytOthOSewith"urbanresidence"Calds,hasbeendondnant.Bothsystems,beingcentraltorestrictingthegrowthofurbanpopulation,havestagnatedrUral-tirbaningration.Duringthe30yearsbefore1978,thestatedidsPOnsorpopulationmovementsfromrUraltourbanareasbymeansofenrollingnewworkers,butingeneral,thiss…  相似文献   

BOOK REVIEWS     

《The Professional geographer》1988,40(1):116-131

Books reviewed in this article: Boundary Control and Legal Priniciples . Curtis M. Brown , Walter G. Robillard and Donald A. Wilson . Lost Initiatives: Canada's Forest Industries, Forest Policy, and Forest Conservation . R. Peter Gillis and Thomas R. Roach . The Navajo Atlas: Resources, People, and History of the Dine Bikeyah . James M. Goodman . The City and the Sign . M. Gottdiener AND Alexandros Ph . Lagopoulos , EDS. The Comfortable House: North American Suburban Architecture 1890–1930 . Alan Gowans . Arabic-Islamic Cities. Building and Planning Principles . Besim Salim Hakim . Contemporary Climatology . Ann Henderson -Sellers and Peter J. Robinson . A Trace of Desert Waters . Samuel G. Houghton . Geography, Resources and Environment. Vol. 1: Selected Writings of Gilbert F. White. Vol. 2: Themes from the Work of Gilbert F. White . Robert W. Kates AND Ian Burton , ED. Spatial Dimensions of Unemployment and Underemployment (A Case Study of Rural Punjab) . Gopal Krishan . Maps of the Holy Land: Cartobibliography of Printed Maps, 1475–1900 . Compiled by Eran Laor , assisted by Shoshana Klein . The Geography of Third World Cities . Stella Lowder . A Perspective on U.S. Farm Problems and Agricultural Policy . Lance Mc Kinzie , Timothy G. Baker AND Wallace E. Tyner . Soil Erosion and Its Control. R.P.C . Morgan , ED Geopolitics . Patrick O'Sullivan . Landscape, Meanings and Values . Edmund C. Penning -Rowsell AND David Lowenthal , EDS.  相似文献   

生态移民国外研究进展   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

税伟徐国伟兰肖雄  王雅文马菁 《世界地理研究》2012,(1):150-157

随着环境变化对人类生产生活影响程度的逐渐加深,越来越多的学者投身于对生态难民及其相关领域的研究。本文对生态移民的定义与分类、生态移民的产生原因、生态移民的相关预测与评估、环境变化与移民之间的关联等方面进行了重点综述,并对环境难民的进～步应用进行了展望。提出要扩大生态移民的研究区域、转移生态移民的预测重点、加深关于生态移民影响效益的评估研究、探索更综合严谨的生态移民研究方法以及建立一套适合于生态移民的应对指导体系和可持续发展体系。  相似文献   

Hospitality unionism and labour market adjustment: Toward Schumpeterian unionism?   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Steven Tufts 《Geoforum》2009,40(6):980-990

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