| Description |
ix, 393 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Some chapters were previously published in various sources. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Gender and immigration : a retrospective and introduction / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo -- Engendering migration studies : the case of new immigrants in the United States / Patricia R. Pessar -- Strategic instantiations of gendering in the global economy / Saskia Sassen -- The global context of gendered labor migration from the Philippines to the United States / James A. Tyner -- Gender and labor in Asian immigrant families / Yen Le Espiritu -- The intersection of work and gender : Central American immigrant women and employment in California / Cecilia Menjívar -- Israeli and Russian Jews : gendered perspectives on settlement and return migration / Steven J. Gold -- Gendered ethnicity : creating a Hindu Indian identity in the United States / Prema Kurien -- Disentangling race-gender work experiences : second-generation Caribbean young adults in New York City / Nancy Lopez -- Gendered geographies of home : mapping second- and third-generation Puerto Ricans' sense of home / Maura I. Toro-Morn, Marixsa Alicea -- De madres a hijas : gendered lessons on virginity across generations of Mexican immigrant women / Gloria González-López -- Raising children, and growing up, across national borders : comparative perspectives on age, gender, and migration / Barrie Thorne ... [et al.] -- "We don't sleep around like white girls do" : family, culture, and gender in Filipina American lives / Yen Le Espiritu -- Engendering transnational migration : a case study of Salvadorans / Sarah J. Mahler -- "I'm here, but I'm there" : the meanings of Latina transnational motherhood / Pierette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Ernestine Avila -- Gender, status, and the state in transnational spaces : the gendering of political participation and Mexican hometown associations / Luin Goldring -- "The blue passport" : gender and the social process of naturalization among Dominican immigrants in New York City / Audrey Singer, Greta Gilbertson. |
| Subject |
Women immigrants -- United States.
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United States -- Emigration and immigration.
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| Added Author |
Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette.
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| ISBN |
0520225619 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780520225619 cloth alkaline paper |
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0520237390 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780520237391 paperback alkaline paper |
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