ABSTRACT
Feminist geography has always been interested in the interaction between social relations and place. Migration and the changes brought about by people’s movement through space have always been high on the feminist geography agenda. Class opposition is often evident in the way women organize around different issues and specifically in working class women’s rejection of middle- and upper-class feminist movements, and vice-versa. The differentiated position of women within and between countries in relation to class, race, and ethnicity calls for an intersectional approach to the analysis of gender dynamics in migration processes. N. Fraser proposes a broader analysis of gender that considers the original socialist feminist concerns about distribution with the newer concerns of identity and culture. Taken together, these four elements: social networks, work, care, and intimacy, provide a broad framework from which to evaluate social transformation in migration or as a result of migration in the migrants’ economic, social, and personal lives.
