Towards A Feminist Political Economy Framework for Analyzing Employment-Related Geographical Mobility

Abstract

This article develops a feminist political economy framework for analyzing employment-related geographical mobility. We emphasize the relevance of political economy studies of class, neoliberalism, and globalization as well as feminist research on the interconnectedness between paid employment and social reproduction. Overall, we make the case for attending to how class, gender, racialization and/or ethnicity, citizenship, and other forms of difference are core constitutive elements in employment-related mobility processes. At the end of the paper, we illustrate our approach with short empirical case studies of two mobile workers who came to Canada from the Philippines.