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Gender, migration, and the public sphere, 1850-2005
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The decision to emigrate has historically held differing promises and costs for women and for men. Exploring theories of difference in labor market participation, network formation and the immigran...
The decision to emigrate has historically held differing promises and costs for women and for men. Exploring theories of difference in labor market participation, network formation and the immigrant organising process, on belonging and diaspora, and a theory of 'vulnerability,' A Global History of Gender and Migration looks critically at two centuries of the migration experience from the perspectives of women and men separately and together. Uniquely investigating the subject globally over time, this book incorporates the history of migration in areas as far-flung as
Details
- Creator
- edited by Marlou Schrover and Eileen Janes Yeo
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- New York : Routledge, 2009
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (194 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1135235503, 1282315463, 9786612315466, 020386655X, 0415807158, 0415801729
- OCLC
- ocn466441517
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; 1 Introduction: Moving the Focus to the Public Sphere; 2 Gender and Homeland in the Irish and Jewish Diasporas, 1850-1930; 3 Men and Women in Paris, 1870-1930; 4 Polish Liberators and Ostarbeiterinnen in Belgium During the Cold War: Mixed Marriages and their Differences for Immigrant Men and Women; 5 Why Make a Difference?: Migration Policy and Making Differences Between Migrant Men and Women (The Netherlands 1945-2005); 6 Children's Citizenship, Motherhood and the Nation State
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