Gender, work and migration: Reflections on feminist geography contributions and challenges
本文以McDowell 1991年的文章为起点，反思女性主义地理学在经济地理学中关于性别、工作与移民的贡献与持续挑战，源自2015年牛津第四届全球经济地理学会议的讨论。
In 1991, Linda McDowell's article 'Life without Father and Ford: The New Gender Order of Post-Fordism' (McDowell, 1991) was published.The article is a classic example of feminist geography critiques of human geography -or, in this context, economic geography -for excluding women as subjects and gender as an analytical category.Yet almost a quarter of a century later, feminist geographers still struggle for our place in the discipline.This commentary aims to provide some reflections on the contributions of feminist geography in economic geography from gender, work and migration perspectives.Linda McDowell's article 'Life without Father and Ford' is used as a starting point of the discussion, which will be followed by a brief overview of the contributions of feminist geography in gender, work and migration literature and a reflection on the constant challenges.This commentary originated from the discussion at the 'Feminist Economic Geography: What Difference does Difference Make?' Panel at the Fourth Global Conference on Economic Geography, Oxford, 2015, which was organized as a tribute to McDowell's works.This commentary is therefore not intended to provide a comprehensive review of feminist geography works.To give a little background about myself, I am originally from Indonesia but I have been living in Sweden for more than six years.Previously, I worked as a staff at the National Commission on Violence against Women in Indonesia.The experience gave me initial empirical knowledge on the exploitation of Indonesian women domestic workers abroad.I have since gained academic knowledge in gender studies and human geography as part of my graduate education.Most literature I read is in English, although I also follow works of scholars from Southeast Asia.This mixed background shapes the kind of knowledge I gain and pursue throughout my life.At the same time, it makes me sensitive to gender, class, race questions