Gender, migration and the public sphere, 1850-2005

• Other Authors: Schrover, Marlou, 1959-, Yeo, Eileen.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Routledge, 2010.
• Series: Routledge research in gender and history ; 10.
• Subjects: Women immigrants > History.; Women immigrants > Social conditions.; Women immigrants > Government policy.; Emigration and immigration > Government policy.; Human beings > Migrations > History.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.; Electronic books.
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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 t...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: moving the focus to the public sphere / Marlou Schrover and Eileen Janes Yeo
• Gender and homeland in the Irish and Jewish diasporas, 1850-1930 / Leslie Page Moch
• Polish liberators and Ostarbeiterinnen in Belgium during the Cold War: mixed marriages and their differences for immigrant men and women / Machteld Venken
• Why make a difference? Migration policy and making differences between migrant men and women (The Netherlands 1945-2005) / Marlou Schrover
• Children's citizenship, motherhood and the nation state / Betty De Hart
• Gendered migrations and the globalisation of social reproduction and care: new dialogues and directions / Eleonore Kofman
• About cleanliness, closeness and reliability: Somali and Ethiopian domestic workers in Yemen / Marina De Regt
• Where are the girls? War, displacement and the notion of home among Sudanese refugee children / Lynette A. Jackson.