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2023

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Overview

Eleonore Kofman is affiliated with Middlesex University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of social sciences with a focus on sociology, political science, and demography.

Their scholarly work addresses key topics related to migration and labor dynamics, migration, refugees, and integration, as well as diaspora, transnational identity, and migration's intersections with ethnicity, economy, employment, welfare, aging, tourism, health, and trauma.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • International Migration
  • Work Employment and Society
  • Comparative Migration Studies
  • Ethnic and Racial Studies
  • Oxford University Press eBooks

Notable recent papers authored by Eleonore Kofman include:

  • "Unequal internationalisation and the emergence of a new epistemic community: gender and migration" (2020), Comparative Migration Studies
  • "Integration Discourses, the Purification of Gender and Interventions in Family Migrations" (2023), Ethnic and Racial Studies

Other prominent papers coauthored with colleagues include:

  • "Onward migration and intra-European mobilities: A critical and theoretical overview" (2021), International Migration
  • "Onward migration: An introduction" (2021), International Migration
  • "Migrants at Work: Perspectives, Perceptions and New Connections" (2020), Work Employment and Society

Eleonore Kofman has also contributed to academic book publications, including the 2022 book titled Gender and Migration published by Springer International Publishing.

Their frequent coauthors are:

  • Anastasia Christou
  • Francesco Della Puppa
  • Nicola Montagna
  • Parvati Raghuram
  • Franz Buhr

Eleonore Kofman's work is characterized by engagement with migration issues intersecting with gender, labor, integration, and family dynamics, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach within the broader social sciences. Their publications have contributed to a range of international journals and thematic areas, informing scholarly debates in migration studies and related disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Gender and International Migration in Europe: Employment, Welfare and Politics

    Eleonore Kofman;Annie Phizacklea;Parvati Raghuram;Rosemary A. Sales

  • Family-related migration: A critial review of European studies

    Eleonore Kofman

  • Secure borders and safe haven and the gendered politics of belonging: Beyond social cohesion

    Nira Yuval-Davis;Floya Anthias;Eleonore Kofman

  • Female "birds of passage" a decade later: gender and immigration in the European Union.

    Eleonore Kofman

  • Globalization : theory and practice

    Eleonore Kofman;Gillian Youngs

  • Wife or worker? : Asian women and migration

    Nicola Piper;Mina Roces;Eleonore Kofman

  • The invisibility of skilled female migrants and gender relations in studies of skilled migration in Europe

    Eleonore Kofman

  • Gender and Global Labour Migrations: Incorporating Skilled Workers

    Eleonore Kofman;Parvati Raghuram

  • Citizenship, Migration and the Reassertion of National Identity

    Eleonore Kofman

  • Gendered global migrations.

    Eleonore Kofman

  • Gendered Migrations and Global Social Reproduction

    Eleonore Kofman;Parvati Raghuram

  • Rethinking Care Through Social Reproduction: Articulating Circuits of Migration

    Eleonore Kofman

  • Citizenship for some but not for others: spaces of citizenship in contemporary Europe

    Eleonore Kofman

  • Contemporary European migrations, civic stratification and citizenship

    Eleonore Kofman

  • Mapping Women, Making Politics : Feminist Perspectives on Political Geography

    Lynn A. Staeheli;Eleonore Kofman;Linda Peake

  • Gender and international migration in Europe

    Eleonore Kofman;Annie Phizacklea;Parvati Raghuram;Rosemary Sales

  • Gender, generations and the family in international migration

    Albert Kraler;Eleonore Kofman;Martin Kohli;Camille Schmoll

  • The Implications of Migration for Gender and Care Regimes in the South

    Eleonore Kofman;Parvati Raghuram

  • Insiders and outsiders: working with peer researchers in researching Muslim communities

    Louise Ryan;Eleonore Kofman;Pauline Aaron

  • Gender and skilled migrants: into and beyond the work place

    Eleonore Kofman;Parvati Raghuram

  • Out of Asia: Skilling, re-skilling and deskilling of female migrants.

    Parvati Raghuram;Eleonore Kofman

  • Feminism and Geography: The Limits of Geographical Knowledge

    Eleonore Kofman;Gillian Rose

Frequent Co-Authors

Parvati Raghuram
Parvati Raghuram The Open University
Martin Kohli
Martin Kohli European University Institute
Lynn A. Staeheli
Lynn A. Staeheli Durham University
Ron Johnston
Ron Johnston University of Bristol
Thomas Faist
Thomas Faist Bielefeld University
Gillian Rose
Gillian Rose University of Oxford
Floya Anthias
Floya Anthias University of Roehampton
Nira Yuval-Davis
Nira Yuval-Davis University of East London
Henri Lefebvre
Henri Lefebvre Université Paris Cité
Nicola Piper
Nicola Piper University of Sydney

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