Gender and Immigration - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0814747329 ISBN 13: 9780814747322

Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 1999

Riassunto

Women and men migrate across international boundaries at roughly the same rate. Yet most scholarship assumes that international migration results primarily from the labor migration of male workers. When international female migration is acknowledged, the focus is almost exclusively on women in the low-wage labor sector of the global economy.
Gender and Immigration challenges this outlook by examining the diverse and complex ways in which women in a variety of occupational and social categories experience international relocation.
Written by experts and policymakers in the field, the timely essays collected here explore whether international migration provides women with opportunities for liberation from the subordinate gender roles of their countries of origin. Or, do migrant women face both traditional and new forms of subordination and discrimination in their host societies?
Exploring the experiences of a broad range of women, from "unskilled" workers on the U.S.-Mexican border and Filipino mail-order brides to Indian-American motel owners, Asian businesswomen, and Russian immigrants to Israel, Gender and Immigration offers a much-needed corrective to the long-standing invisibility of women in international migration research.

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It is widely assumed that international migration results primarily from the labour migration of male workers, and that female migration is limited mainly to the low-wage labour sector of the global economy. But in fact women and men migrate across international boundaries at roughly the same rate. This collection of essays explores the diverse and complex ways in which women in a variety of occupational and social categories experience international relocation. The contributors examine whether international migration provides women with opportunities for liberation from the subordinate gender roles of their countries of origin, or whether they face both traditional and new forms of subordination and discrimination in their host societies. The study encompasses unskilled workers on the US-Mexican border, Filipino mail-order brides, Indian-American motel owners, Asian businesswomen and Russian immigrants to Israel.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: New York Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0814747329
• ISBN 13: 9780814747322
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Redattore: Kelson Gregory A., Delaet Debra L.
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