Sarah Scuzzarello – författare

This book offers both a theoretical and empirical discussion of the psychology of ethics and care in a global world. Theoretically, the book seeks to problematize the concept of globalization, ethics and care by discussing how global-local linkages may be constructed in various ways and produce a number of different ethical results depending on context. The book makes a couple of major contributions. First, it demonstrates how globalization, multiculturalism and group conflict must be reconceptualized from an ethical perspective if we are to appreciate and understand the extent to which people are likely to act on behalf of others in a global world. Second, it advances ethical ideas that provide new political and moral vocabularies that allow us to imagine social alternatives. The political psychology of real or perceived violence in a global world calls for new approaches to understanding collective experience. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding how political, economic, social and psychological forces interact and are mutually reinforced in a global context.

The Oxford Handbook of Intersectional Approaches to Migration, Gender, and Sexuality provides a comprehensive guide to rethinking gender, migration, and sexuality through an intersectional lens. It creates an opportunity for epistemological dialogues on those issues across disciplines and geographies. The Handbook presents interpretations and applications of intersectional migration research in political science, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies. It engages with scholarship across the globe, highlighting diverse approaches to intersectionality and moving beyond Eurocentric frameworks. In doing so, the Handbook examines how a broad range of identities shape and stratify social interactions and mobility, offering a more diverse, contextual understanding of the complexities of migration research and experiences. The Handbook demonstrates a commitment to intersectional and decolonial approaches, acknowledging an intellectual debt to Black feminist scholars and taking a global perspective on intersectionality and migration. The volume emphasizes sexuality as a crucial yet overlooked dimension shaping migration experiences, governance, and integration. It expands conceptualizations of gender to include analyses of male immigrant's experiences and provides evidence of how migration interrelates with masculinities and queerness from a global perspective. It contributes a global and transnational perspective to the field of migration studies, enriching our understanding of migration, gender, and sexuality's complex interactions.

The chapters in this volume study transnational social relationships and cross-border connections between ‘ordinary’ people that arise from the increasingly large-scale mobilities and migrations between Thailand and ‘the West’. While Thai and Western people’s social relationships are usually studied as personal stories within a cross-border marriage migration perspective, this book considers it necessary to see them as more than marriage migration.Even though a focus on the ‘personal life stories’ of marriage migrants provides valuable insights, it can also mask consideration of the structural context of socially embedded cross- border connections and exchanges, as well as state restrictions, that, first, make people’s decisions to move a possibility in the first place, and second, shape a migrant’s post- migration life- trajectory and experiences, relative to others in their origin and settlement societies. The chapters on Thai women who marry and move with older Western men, Western men and women who move to Thailand to retire or for leisure, and Thai rural families transformed by mobilities and migration, try to draw out their gendered experiences of transnational living. The individual choices that shaped these lives, and the surprising prevalence of lives like these in Thailand and abroad, needs to be understood within context as an outcome of the specific globalisation processes that have shaped Thailand through transnational links to other parts of the world over the last decades. Globalisation and penetration by foreign capital, cultures, and people through mass tourism is key to this explanatory backstory as well as the internal rural/ urban cleavages that drive Thailand’s economic development.This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.