ISBN:
0520225619
,
0520237390
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 393 p)
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender and U.S. Immigration : Contemporary Trends
DDC:
304.8/73/0082
Keywords:
Women immigrants
;
United States - Emigration and immigration
;
Electronic books
;
United States Emigration and immigration
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Resurgent immigration is one of the most powerful forces disrupting and realigning everyday life in the United States and elsewhere, and gender is one of the fundamental social categories anchoring and shaping immigration patterns. Yet the intersection of gender and immigration has received little attention in contemporary social science literature and immigration research. This book brings together some of the best work in this area, including essays by pioneers who have logged nearly two decades in the field of gender and immigration, and new empirical work by both young scholars and well-es
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PART I: INTRODUCTION; 1. Gender and Immigration: A Retrospective and Introduction; 2. Engendering Migration Studies: The Case of New Immigrants in the United States; 3. Strategic Instantiations of Gendering in the Global Economy; PART II: GENDER AND EMPLOYMENT; 4. The Global Context of Gendered Labor Migration from the Philippines to the United States; 5. Gender and Labor in Asian Immigrant Families; 6. The Intersection of Work and Gender: Central American Immigrant Women and Employment in California
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Israeli and Russian Jews: Gendered Prespectives on Settlement and Return MigrationPART III: ENGENDERING RACIAL AND ETHNIC IDENTITIES; 8. Gendered Ethnicity: Creating a Hindu Indian Identity in the United States; 9. Disentangling Race-Gender Work Experiences: Second-Generation Caribbean Young Adults in New York City; 10. Gendered Geographies of Home: Mapping Second- and Third-Generation Puerto Ricans' Sense of Home; PART IV: GENDER, GENERATION, AND IMMIGRATION; 11. De madres a hijas: Gendered Lessons on Virginity across Generations of Mexican Immigrant Women
Description / Table of Contents:
12. Raising Children, and Growing Up, across National Borders: Comparative Perspectives on Age, Gender, and Migration13. "We Don't Sleep Around Like White Girls Do": Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives; PART V: GENDER, CITIZENSHIP, AND THE TRANSNATIONAL; 14. Engendering Transnational Migration: A Case Study of Salvadorans; 15. "I'm Here, but I'm There": The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood; 16. Gender, Status, and the State in Transnational Spaces: The Gendering of Political Participation and Mexican Hometown Associations
Description / Table of Contents:
17. "The Blue Passport": Gender and the Social Process of Naturalization among Dominican Immigrants in New York CityCONTRIBUTORS; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Note:
Some chapters were previously published in various sources
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520225619.001.0001
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