ABSTRACT

In everyday life individuals tend to read place- and time-specific gender codes and act according to, or in contrast to, what they perceive as the appropriate local gender practice. The aim of the article is to address the questions of what happens when people live translocal lives, in multiple cultures, as in international migration situations, and when people change their place of residence with a corresponding changed gender context. Based on in-depth interviews with immigrants, the authors analyse gender navigation in relation to mobility. They focus on the need to navigate between intentions and requirements of various gendered behaviour. By investigating the gendered practices involved in migration, specifically in international migration, they elucidate this navigation as a ‘going-gender’ process which, in turn, visualises the dilemmas involved in these oscillating rather than unidirectional processes. In conclusion, a ‘going-gender’ analysis can explain the way in which individuals learn to handle the intersection of diverse gender contracts through solving the dilemmas when they move between places. Such an analysis would stress the transformative character of ‘doing gender’ and emphasise the reflexive attitude and strategic approach of studied immigrants.

摘要

在日常生活中，个人倾向于阅读针对特定地点和时间的性别代码，并根据自己认为适当的当地性别习惯或与之相反的方式行事。本文的目的是解决以下问题：当人们在国际文化中，在多种文化中（如在国际移民中）居住在跨文化中时，以及当人们根据相应的性别背景改变居住地时，会发生什么。基于对移民的深入采访，作者分析了与流动性相关的性别导航。他们专注于在各种性别行为的意图和要求之间导航的需求。通过调查移民特别是国际移民中涉及的性别歧视做法，他们将这种航行解释为“持续发展的性别”过程，进而，可视化涉及这些振荡过程而不是单向过程的困境。总之，“去往性别”分析可以解释个体通过解决两地不同处境时的困境来学习如何处理各种性别契约的交集的方式。这样的分析将强调“做性别”的变革性，并强调研究移民的反思态度和战略方法。