Transnational Labour Migration and the place of Reproductive Labour: Trailing Wives and Community Support in Boddington
研究了随迁妻子在跨国劳动力迁移中的经历，揭示了国家法规、行业实践和目的地社区如何共同塑造性别化的再生产劳动分工，并强调了社区中无偿再生产劳动对经济全球化的支撑作用。
This article addresses the need for critical attention to families and place in the labour migration literature. Through examination of the experiences of trailing wives, it highlights the interconnected roles of state regulation, industry practice and destination communities in the gendering of transnational labour migration. Specifically, we attend to the experiences of trailing wives accompanying partners who migrated to Boddington in rural Western Australia to take up skilled work in the nearby gold mine, and incorporate (inter) related perspectives of local community members, in particular the provision of substantive migrant support by a key local figure. This research extends the labour migration literature in two ways. First, it develops understandings of how transnational labour migration fortifies gendered divisions of reproductive labour and, importantly, can encompass unpaid reproductive labour in local communities. Second, this article foregrounds the ways in which complex configurations of unpaid and paid reproductive labour – in households, community spaces and work-camp – underwrite economic globalization.