Women, Gender and Labour Migration: Historical and Cultural Perspectives / Edition 1

by Pamela Sharpe

Overview

Approximately half of all migrants today are female. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which attention to gender is moving debates away from old paradigms, such as the push/pull motivation which used to dominate the field of migration studies. The authors consider women's experience of migration, especially in long distance, transnational moves. They examine the extent to which labour migration is a social and strategic decision for women.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415228008
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/14/2001
Series:	Routledge Research in Gender and History , #5
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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