Illegal migration and gender in a global and historical perspective / / edited by Marlou Schrover ... [et al.].

This incisive study combines the two subjects and views the migration scholarship through the lens of the gender perspective.

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Superior document:IMISCOE research
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Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:IMISCOE research.
Physical Description:1 online resource (196 pages)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Illegal migration and gender in a global and historical perspective
  • Tracing back 'illegal aliens' in the Netherlands, 1850-1940
  • Policing foreign men and women : Gendered patterns of expulsion and migration control in Germany, 1880-1914
  • Gendered borders : The case of 'illegal' migration from Iraq, the Horn of Africa and the former Soviet Union to the Netherlands
  • Old and new labour migration to Malaysia : From colonial times to the present
  • The romantic appeal of illegal migration : Gender, masculinity and human smuggling from Pakistan
  • Migrant domestic workers in the Middle East--Illegal migration, gender and health care : Perspectives from Germany and the United States.