Women, Gender and Labour Migration (eBook, ePUB)

Historical and Cultural Perspectives
Redaktion: Sharpe, Pamela

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Approximately half of all migrants are today are female. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which attention to gender is moving debates away from old theories that have long dominated the field of migration studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134586639
• Artikelnr.: 42641419

Autorenporträt

Pamela Sharpe

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: gender and the experience of migration Pamela Sharpe 2.
Women migrants as global and local agents: new research strategies on
gender and migration Christiane Harzig 3. Leaving home to help the family?
Male and female temporary migrants in eighteenth and nineteenth-century
Spain Carmen Saras^D~ua 4. Labour migration, family and community in early
modern Japan Mary Louise Nagata 5. Women and long distance trade migration
in the nineteenth-century Netherlands Marlou Schrover 6. Nowhere at home?
Female migrants in the nineteenth-century Habsburg monarchy Sylvia Hahn 7.
Gender, family, work and migration in early nineteenth-century Scotland
David Tidswell 8. Wives or workers? Single British female migration to
colonial Australia Jan Gothard 9. A historical perspective on female
migrants: motivations and strategies of nineteenth-century hessians Simone
Wegge 10. When the migrants are men; Italy's women and transnationalism as
a working-class way of life Donna Gabaccia 11. Gender and twentieth-century
Irish migration 1921-71 Enda Delaney 12. Maids on the move: images of
femininity and European women's labour migration during the inter-war years
Barbara Henkes 13. Female migration and the farm family economy in
inter-war Japan Janet Hunter 14. Migrancy, marriage and family in the
Ciskei reserve of South Africa 1945-1959 Anne Mager 15. Women and migrants:
continuity and change in patterns of female migration in Latin America
Paulina de los Reyes