"Doing Gender," Ensuring Survival: Mexican Migration and Economic Crisis in the Rural Mountain West

Autor/in	Schmalzbauer, Leah
Titel	"Doing Gender," Ensuring Survival: Mexican Migration and Economic Crisis in the Rural Mountain West
Quelle	In: Rural Sociology, 76 (2011) 4, S.441-460 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-0112
DOI	10.1111/j.1549-0831.2011.00058.x
Schlagwörter	Females; Ethnography; Social Networks; Migrants; Masculinity; Mexicans; Coping; Family Relationship; Employed Women; Social Support Groups; Rural Areas; Rural Urban Differences; Economic Climate; Economic Impact; Gender Issues; Sex Role; Montana + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Ethnografie; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Migrantin; Männlichkeit; Mexikaner; Bewältigung; 'Female employment; Women''s employment'; Frauenbeschäftigung; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Stadt-Land-Beziehung; Wirtschaftslage; Ökonomische Determinanten; Geschlechterfrage; Geschlechterrolle
Abstract	This article draws on ethnographic research to explore the impacts of the current economic crisis on Mexican migrant families in rural Montana. It looks specifically at the ways rural families negotiate gender roles and expectations as they devise survival strategies in response to major economic shifts. My analysis suggests that traditional gender roles are being transgressed, as migrant women enter wage labor, often for the first time. Simultaneously, gender ideologies are being reinforced, as migrant women struggle to protect men's sense of masculinity by continuing to perform a culturally appropriate gender script. Whereas the paradoxical combination of gender transgression and tradition has been noted within urban migrant families, its dynamics are different in rural contexts. While urban migrants tend to look outward to social networks for support, rural migrants turn inward to their immediate families, strengthening family solidarities. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10