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Title Gender, migration and the public sphere, 1850-2005 / edited by Marlou Schrover and Eileen Janes Yeo
Published New York : Routledge, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 185 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge research in gender and history ; 10
Routledge research in gender and history ; 10.
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
Summary 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 the perspectives of women and men separately and together
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject 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.
Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
Human beings -- Migrations
Women immigrants
Women immigrants -- Government policy
Women immigrants -- Social conditions
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Schrover, Marlou, 1959-
Yeo, Eileen.
LC no. 2009018165
ISBN 9780203866559
020386655X
9781135235505
1135235503
9781135235499
113523549X
9781135235451
1135235457
9780415807159
0415807158