Gender, Migration and Categorisation : : Making Distinctions between Migrants in Western Countries, 1945-2010 / / ed. by Deirdre M. Moloney, Marlou Schrover.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Andreassen, Rikke,; Boyd, Monica,; Cederberg, Maja,; Jones, Guno,; Legêne, Susan,; Moloney, Deirdre,; Nowak, Joanne,; Oxford, Connie,; Raissiguier, Catherine,; Schacher, Yael,; Schrover, Marlou,; Walaardt, Tycho,; van Walsum, Sarah,
• HerausgeberIn: Moloney, Deirdre M.,; Schrover, Marlou,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: IMISCOE Research
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)

This collection explores how Western countries have historically distinguished between categories of migrants-such as labor, refugee, family, and postcolonial migrants. Covering France, the United States, Turkey, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark, the contributors explain how concepts such as "refugee," "family," and "difference" have been defined through policy and public debate. Tightly intertwined, these definitions are continuously changing with the economic and geopolitical climate, as well as in relation to migrants' gender, class, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and countries of destination and origin.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- 1. Introduction. Making a difference -- 2. Refugees and restrictionism Armenian women immigrants to the usa in the post-World War I era -- 3. New refugees? Manly war resisters prevent an asylum crisis in the Netherlands, 1968-1973 -- 4. A gender-blind approach in Canadian refugee processes Mexican female claimants in the new refugee narrative -- 5. Queer asylum us policies and responses to sexual orientation and transgendered persecution -- 6. Belonging and membership Postcolonial legacies of colonial family law in Dutch immigration policies -- 7. Blood matters Sarkozy's immigration policies and their gendered impact -- 8. Gender, inequality and integration Swedish policies on migrant incorporation and the position of migrant women -- 9. Take off that veil and give me access to your body An analysis of Danish debates about Muslim women's head and body covering -- 10. Multiculturalism, dependent residence status and honour killings Explaining current Dutch intolerance towards ethnic minorities from a gender perspective (1960-2000) -- 11. Conclusion Gender, migration and cross-categorical research -- About the authors