TY - GEN AU - Tissot,Florian TI - Doing Family on the Move : Highly-Skilled Migrants in Switzerland and Germany SN - b16724 PY - 2020/// CY - Bern PB - Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group KW - Sociology KW - bicssc KW - Migration, immigration & emigration KW - Gender studies, gender groups KW - Family & relationships KW - FAM KW - Migration, immigration and emigration KW - Gender studies: men and boys KW - Sociology: family and relationships KW - Gender studies: women and girls N1 - Open Access N2 - This book focuses on the coordination between family life and professional career under the condition of repeated mobilities. It analyses the division between the labour force work and the care work of couples of highly-skilled migrants settling in either Switzerland or Germany. A mutually exclusive model provides an innovative understanding of gendered hierarchies in career achievement. The male partners operate three parallel elements: an upward professional career, a family-life implying child(ren), and maintaining their availability to further unplanned relocations. The female partners can only coordinate two of these concurrently. In fact, the male partners combine the three elements by taking advantage of specific, and mostly invisible, care work that the female partner provides UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/42354/1/9783034339872.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/42354/1/9783034339872.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33955 ER -