Working-class against their will: “Recognized” refugees in France and Bulgaria in the early twenty-first century
Drawing on a sociological study concerning “recognized” refugees in France and Bulgaria and their search for work, this article aims at opening a research field about the gender dimension of their relationship to work. The refugees who become workers generally experience this transformation as a los...
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| הוצא לאור ב: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh, |
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| פורמט: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| שפה: | Anglais |
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Clio
2017
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| גישה מקוונת: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| סיכום: | Drawing on a sociological study concerning “recognized” refugees in France and Bulgaria and their search for work, this article aims at opening a research field about the gender dimension of their relationship to work. The refugees who become workers generally experience this transformation as a loss of social and professional status that destabilizes their identity and amplifies the rupture with their habitual world that exile entails. The paper shows that these experiences of loss coincide with transformation in gender identifications (either destabilization or strengthening of “virile” or “feminine” stereotypes). At the same time gender norms can offer resources and enable strategies that allow individuals to adjust to a new condition generally considered unenviable. |
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