African Women Immigrants in the United States: Crossing Transnational Borders

by J. Arthur

Overview

This title depicts how immigrant women use international migration as a strategy to challenge existing patriarchal hegemonies operative both in the United States and Africa. It also weaves together the multidimensional strands of how African immigrant women shape and are shaped by the process of international migration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230617780
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	11/18/2009
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

JOHN A. ARTHUR is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Minnesota, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction and Organization Centering Gender in Intra and Inter-Regional Migration in Africa Passage to America Gender and Forced Migration Gender and the Formation of Transnational Black Immigrant Identities Gender, Migration and Work African Immigrants and Black American Women Second Generation West African Immigrant Girls Fertility Decision-Making Conclusion and Policy Issues References