Women in Global Migration, 1945-2000

Women in Global Migration, 1945-2000
Author: Eleanore O. Hofstetter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 550
Release: 2001-03-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0313016941

With large numbers of people migrating to other countries after World War II, a substantial amount of scholarship has focused on the status, problems, and successes of women immigrants since 1945. The first comprehensive compilation of the international literature on these women, this bibliography--with over 5,100 entries--reveals the breadth of scholarship on feminist immigration issues. Focusing particularly on sources from North America and Western Europe, where most immigrant women settled, the book includes feminist analyses, bibliographies, demographic studies, economic comparisons, educational research, health and medical reports, legal discussions, biographies and autobiographies, psychological case studies, religious reports, sociological investigations, and publications dealing with general aspects of female immigration. The book covers such legal issues as citizenship, international conventions on contract workers, the traffic in women, and services and government benefits to immigrants. Medical entries include such topics as female genital mutilation, comparative obstetric results, and equity of treatment. Education entries cover such subjects as adult education and the second-language programs necessary for assimilation. With entries in several languages, the bibliography includes books, journal articles, essays and chapters in books, dissertations, ERIC reports, national and international government documents, and statistical sources. With immigration a major political and social issue in most countries today, the book provides an important research tool.

Women Immigrants 1945 to the Present

Women Immigrants 1945 to the Present
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Total Pages:
Release: 2001*
Genre: Emigration and immigration
ISBN:

This bibliography is an effort to collect the current international literature on women immigrants. It is a supplement and update of the publication, Women in Global Migration, 1945-2000: A Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Bibliography that is available from Greenwood Press. The books, journals, essays, government reports and doctoral dissertations listed here treat all aspects of the lives and issues concerning women who are living permanently or for long periods outside their country of origin or who have migrated for fixed periods of time on work contracts. There is one title and author list and several broad subject areas despite the fact that the immigration experience is complex and varied and does not really fit into neat categories.

Immigrant Women’s Voices and Integrating Feminism Into Migration Theory

Immigrant Women’s Voices and Integrating Feminism Into Migration Theory
Author: Nyemba, Florence
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2020-12-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1799846652

Migration is a multifaceted phenomenon that plays a critical role in today’s world, yet there have been few attempts to look beneath the surface of the mass movements of people. Particularly, the changing face of migration is becoming more feminized, with women increasingly moving as independent or single migrants rather than as the wives, mothers, or daughters of male migrants. Yet, in literature on migration, the voices of women are still silent. This creates an urgent need to advance academic research on female international migration by examining women as independent migrants. Immigrant Women’s Voices and Integrating Feminism Into Migration Theory comprehensively documents the experiences of immigrant women across the globe and the important theories that define their experiences. The chapters give firsthand accounts of women speaking about their own experiences on migration and topics associated with women and migration. This book aims to give women their own voice and to stand apart from previous literature in which male relatives spoke on behalf of immigrant women to tell their stories for them. While highlighting topics on women in migration including feminism, gendered social roles, first-person narratives, and the female identity, this book is ideally for professionals in social science disciplines as well as practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students wanting to expand their knowledge on women and migration, gender violence, and women empowerment.

The International Migration of Women

The International Migration of Women
Author: Andrew R. Morrison
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2007-12-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

190 million people - 3 percent of the world's population - presently live outside their country of birth and half are women. This volume is the first to provide gender analysis on international migration and explore the extent, determinants, and implications of women's migration. It also discusses policy options to benefit female migration.

A Companion to American Women's History

A Companion to American Women's History
Author: Nancy A. Hewitt
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 047099858X

This collection of twenty-four original essays by leading scholars in American women's history highlights the most recent important scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field. Covers the breadth of American Women's history, including the colonial family, marriage, health, sexuality, education, immigration, work, consumer culture, and feminism. Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. Includes expanded bibliography of titles to guide further research.

Gender and Immigration

Gender and Immigration
Author: G. Kelson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2016-01-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0333983467

An exploration of the varied and complex ways in which women experience international migration: the chapters are concerned primarily with the question of whether international migration provides women with opportunities for liberating themselves from subordinate gender roles in their countries of origin.

Immigration and Women

Immigration and Women
Author: Susan C. Pearce
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2011
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0814768261

This title is a national portrait of immigrant women who live in the United States today, featuring the voices of these women as they describe their contributions to work, culture, and activism.

The Cambridge Survey of World Migration

The Cambridge Survey of World Migration
Author: Robin Cohen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 592
Release: 1995-11-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780521444057

This extensive survey of migration in the modern world begins in the sixteenth century with the establishment of European colonies overseas, and covers the history of migration to the late twentieth century, when global communications and transport systems stimulated immense and complex flows of labour migrants and skilled professionals. In ninety-five contributions, leading scholars from twenty-seven different countries consider a wide variety of issues including migration patterns, the flights of refugees and illegal migration. Each entry is a substantive essay, supported by up-to-date bibliographies, tables, plates, maps and figures. As the most wide-ranging coverage of migration in a single volume, The Cambridge Survey of World Migration will be an indispensable reference tool for scholars and students in the field.