ISBN:
9780253069177
,
0253069173
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (192 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Gabaccia, Donna R., 1949- From the other side
DDC:
305.488
Keywords:
Geschichte 1820-1990
;
Einwanderin
;
Arbeitsbedingungen
;
Ausländerin
;
Women immigrants History
;
Women foreign workers History
;
Immigrantes - États-Unis - Histoire
;
Travailleuses étrangères - États-Unis - Histoire
;
Women foreign workers
;
Women immigrants
;
Vrouwen
;
Sekseverschillen
;
Immigranten
;
Women immigrants - United States - History
;
Women foreign workers - United States - History
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General
;
History
;
USA
;
United States
;
USA
Abstract:
This long-needed study of women "from the other side" examines the experience of women immigrants as they came to the United Stated from all corners of the earth. Donna Gabaccia traces continuities that characterize women of both the nineteenth-century European and Asian migrations and the present-day Third World migrations. Foreign-born women, even more than men, experienced sharp tensions between communal, familial traditions and U.S. expectations of individualism and voluntarism. She also discovers strong parallels between the lives of foreign-born women and the women of America's native-born racial minorities.--...
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-186) and index
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