Women, Gender and Labour Migration: Historical and Cultural Perspectives by Pamela Sharpe
New and original research which fills a gap in the market of migration studies
Covers a broad range of topics
Clearly and accessibly written
Women, Gender and Labour Migration
Women, Gender and Labour Migration
Summary
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.
Women, Gender and Labour Migration Summary
About Pamela Sharpe
Pamela Sharpe
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: gender and the experience of migration Pamela Sharpe2. Women migrants as global and local agents: new research strategies on gender and migration Christiane Harzig3. Leaving home to help the family? Male and female temporary migrants in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Spain Carmen Saras^D~ua4. Labour migration, family and community in early modern Japan Mary Louise Nagata5. Women and long distance trade migration in the nineteenth-century Netherlands Marlou Schrover6. Nowhere at home? Female migrants in the nineteenth-century Habsburg monarchy Sylvia Hahn7. Gender, family, work and migration in early nineteenth-century Scotland David Tidswell8. Wives or workers? Single British female migration to colonial Australia Jan Gothard9. A historical perspective on female migrants: motivations and strategies of nineteenth-century hessians Simone Wegge10. When the migrants are men; Italy's women and transnationalism as a working-class way of life Donna Gabaccia11. Gender and twentieth-century Irish migration 1921-71 Enda Delaney12. Maids on the move: images of femininity and European women's labour migration during the inter-war years Barbara Henkes13. Female migration and the farm family economy in inter-war Japan Janet Hunter14. Migrancy, marriage and family in the Ciskei reserve of South Africa 1945-1959 Anne Mager15. Women and migrants: continuity and change in patterns of female migration in Latin America Paulina de los Reyes
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NLS9780415510752
9780415510752
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Women, Gender and Labour Migration: Historical and Cultural Perspectives by Pamela Sharpe
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Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2011-11-29
340
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