Gender, Migration and Categorisation : : Making Distinctions between Migrants in Western Countries, 1945-2010 /

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

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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 conc...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (268 p.)
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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

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