Proletarian and gendered mass migrations : a global perspective on continuities and discontinuities from the 19th to the 21st centuries / / edited by Dirk Hoerder and Amarjit Kaur.
Proletarian and Gendered Mass Migrations connects the 19th- and 20th-century labor migrations and migration systems in global transcultural perspective. It emphasizes macro-regional internal continuities or discontinuities and interactions between and within macro-regions. The essays look at migrant...
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Global Social History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (584 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Understanding International Migration: Comparative and Transcultural Perspectives / Amarjit Kaur and Dirk Hoerder
- Transcultural Approaches to Gendered Labour Migration: From the Nineteenth-Century Proletarian to Twenty-First-Century Caregiver Mass Migrations / Dirk Hoerder
- Globalizing the Household in East Asia / Mike Douglass
- Domestic Service and Urbanization in Latin America from the Nineteenth Century to the Present / Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof
- Feminization and Problematization of Migration: Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Marlou Schrover
- Migration and Family Systems in Russia and the Soviet Union, Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries / Gijs Kessler
- Femina migrans: Agency of European Women Migrating to Domestic Work in North America, 1880's to 1950's / Christiane Harzig and Dirk Hoerder
- Interdependence and Convergence: Migration, Men, Women, and Work in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1800–1975 / Dennis D. Cordell
- Migrations in the Maghreb and Western Mediterranean / Kamel Kateb and Hassène Kassar
- “Women Were Strong”: Gender and Migration from the Eastern Mediterranean / Akram Khater
- Chinese Emigration in Global Context, 1850–1940 / Adam McKeown
- Japan, Labour Migration, and the Global Order of Difference / Vera Mackie
- Shifting Geographies of Migration in Southeast Asia: Continuity and Change in Proletarian and Gendered Migrations / Amarjit Kaur
- Migration into Thailand: Change and Continuity from a Gender Perspective / Patcharawalai Wongboonsin
- Indonesian Domestic Workers Overseas: Their Position and Protection in the Global Labour Market / Muhamad Nadratuzzaman Hosen and Aswatini Raharto
- From Amah-chieh to Indonesian Maids: A Comparative Study in the Context of Malaysia circa 1930's–1990's / Ooi Keat Gin
- Women Migrant Workers and Visibility in Malaysia: The Role of Media in Society / Kiranjit Kaur
- Rethinking the “Left-Behind” in Chinese Migrations: A Case of Liberating Wives in 1950's South China / Shelly Chan
- Marriage Migration: Love in Brokered Marriages in Contemporary Japan / Tomoko Nakamatsu
- Migration and Transformation: The Gendering of International Migration from the Philippines in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries / Rochelle Ball
- Notes on Contributors
- Bibliography
- Index.