Global Householding and Social Reproduction in Migration Research : Part Ⅰ : From the Peasantry to Feminist and Political Economy Critiques

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper seeks to locate the household in research on global migration and transborder social and economic integration. The focus is on the household as a basic institution in social reproduction. The discussion begins by comparing concepts of the household in society, starting with peasant studies of the household as a self-sufficient unit of production. It then considers feminist critiques, including transnational family research as a way of looking inside of the household in its relationship to a changing world economic and political order. A political economy assessment of the shift from the “Keynesian” to the “neoliberal” household is made. The quest is to draw from these paradigms a better understanding of householding as a dynamic social process that is now going beyond national and territorial borders in all of its dimensions. The discussion concludes by reasserting ways in which a global householding framework in migration research seeking to contribute to understandings of the dynamics of social reproduction in the contemporary world economy.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Abstract
• Ⅰ. The Household and Social Reproduction in a Global Economy
• Ⅱ. Transforming the Household– from Peasant to World System
• The pre-capitalist household
• The political economy of householding
• Neoliberalism and the household
• Ⅲ. Conclusions: Bringing the Household in Migration Research
• References