| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 318 pages) |
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Routledge research in gender and history ; 5 |
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Routledge research in gender and history ; 5.
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| Contents |
Women migrants as global and local agents / Christiane Harzig -- Leaving home to help the family? / Carmen Sarasua -- Labour migration, family and community in early modern Japan / Mary Louise Nagata -- Women and long-distance trade migration in the nineteenth-century Netherlands / Marlou Schrover -- Nowhere at home? / Sylvia Hahn -- Gender, family, work and migration in early nineteenth-century Scotland / David Tidswell -- Wives or workers? / Jan Gothard -- Historical perspective on female migrants / Simone A. Wegge -- When the migrants are men / Donna Gabaccia -- Gender and twentieth-century Irish migration, 1921-1971 / Enda Delaney -- Maids on the move / Barbara Henkes -- Female migration and the farm family economy in interwar Japan / Janet Hunter -- Migrancy, marriage and family in the Ciskei reserve of South Africa, 1945-1959 / Anne Mager -- Women and migrants / Paulina de los Reyes |
| Summary |
Approximately half of all migrants are today are female. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which attention to gender is moving debates away from old theories that have long dominated the field of migration studies |
| Notes |
Papers presented at the International Economic History Congress, 1998, Madrid |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- Employment -- Congresses
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Women foreign workers -- Congresses
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Minority women -- Employment -- Congresses
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
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Minority women -- Employment.
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Women -- Employment.
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Women foreign workers.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sharpe, Pamela
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International Economic History Congress (1998 : Madrid, Spain)
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| ISBN |
0203248058 |
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9780203248058 |
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0203223667 |
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9780203223666 |
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