The article argues for the usefulness of the capability approach in understanding agency in
situations of social change. It develops the notion of agency as a continuum of capabilities …

This paper proposes to rethink the agriculture–migration nexus through the notions of
temporal fix and migrant hierarchies. Its empirical setting is the post-socialist migration of …

The context of this paper is return visits to the homeland of labour migrants in Europe. The
paper draws on data from the author's ethnographic fieldwork on the island of Guernsey and …

Based on interviews with Latvian emigrants collected between 2008-2014 in England,
Ireland and the USA, this paper asks: How do migrants' perceptions of inequality in their …

The division of care labor has long been gendered; it is increasingly transnational. Part of
the feminization of international migration, many women seek employment abroad as …

How do Latvian emigrants' emotional apprehensions of social and cultural change in post-
Soviet Latvia, and the contrasting experience they gain abroad, affect their relationship with …

Most studies on the processes and effects of neoliberalization concentrate on the public
sphere. Some feminist scholars argue that young middle class women are increasingly …

The goal of the paper is to shed light on gendered nature of labor migration in the post-
Soviet Georgian transitional families. Based on qualitative research methods, this study tries …

This paper describes the circumstances surrounding the migration of older Latvian women
and their multi-dimensional lives as economic migrants and as distant carers and supporters …

The paper explores the factors that cause female labour migration to the Gulf states from
Bangladesh. Grounded on Amartya Sen's concept of well-being in terms of capability and …