Perspectives on gender, migration and transnational work: joint work of social reproduction and care in Southern Europe

This paper presents the "state of the art" and some of the main issues discussed in relation to the topic of transnational migration and reproductive work in southern Europe. We start doing a genealogy of the complex theoretical development leading to the consolidation of the research program, linking consideration of gender with transnational migration and transformation of work and ways of survival, thus making the production aspects as reproductive, in a context of globalization. The analysis of the process of multiscale reconfiguration of social reproduction and care, with particular attention to its present global dimension is presented, pointing to the turning point of this line of research that would have taken place with the beginning of this century, with the rise notions such as "global care chains" (Hochschild, 2001), or "care drain" (Ehrenreich and Hochschild, 2013). Also, the role of this new agency, now composed in many cases women who migrate to other countries or continents, precisely to address these reproductive activities, is recognized. Finally, reference is made to some of the new conceptual and theoretical developments in this area.

L'influence atlantique dans les montagnes portugaises au sud duTage

Prenant la flore et la végétation comme des indicateurs du climat local, on fait une analyse abrégée de l'influence atlantique sur quatre montagnes portugaises, s¡tuées au sud du fleuve Tage, en plain domaine méditerranéen. Elles sont distríbuées depuis le nord-est de l‘Alentejo jusqu’a l’extreme sud-ouest du territoire.L'observation des données floristiques a montré que la dominance des espéces méditerrennes est générale, bien que entre un mínimum de 34.0% à S. Mamede et un maximum de 48.9 % à Portel. On a vérifié aussi, en commun, un trés faible degré d'endémisme, lequel atteint la valeur la plus élevée -1.2%-, dans la montagne de Monchique.