Proletarian and gendered mass migrations : a global perspective on continuities and discontinuities from the 19th to the 21st centuries /

Hoerder, Dirk.

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. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013. - 1 online resource : illustrations - Studies in global social history ; v. 12 Studies in global migration history ; v. 1 . - Studies in global social history ; v. 12. Studies in global migration history ; v. 1. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Illustrations; Part One Introduction; Understanding International Migration:Comparative and Transcultural Perspectives; Transcultural Approaches to Gendered Labour Migration: From the Nineteenth-Century Proletarian to Twenty-First-Century Caregiver Mass Migrations; Globalizing the Household in East Asia; Part Two Atlantic World: Europe and the Americas; Domestic Service and Urbanization in Latin America from the Nineteenth Century to the Present; Feminization and Problematization of Migration: Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Migration and Family Systems in Russia and the Soviet Union, Nineteenth to Twentieth CenturiesFemina migrans: Agency of European Women Migrating to Domestic Work in North America, 1880s to 1950s; Part Three The Africas and the Eastern Mediterranean; Interdependence and Convergence: Migration, Men, Women, and Work in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1800-1975; Migrations in the Maghreb and Western Mediterranean; "Women Were Strong": Gender and Migration from the Eastern Mediterranean; Part Four The Asias; Chinese Emigration in Global Context, 1850-1940. Japan, Labour Migration, and the Global Order of DifferenceShifting Geographies of Migration in Southeast Asia: Continuity and Change in Proletarian and Gendered Migrations; Migration into Thailand: Change and Continuity from a Gender Perspective; Part Five Case Studies: Southeast Asian Domestic and Careworker Migrations; Indonesian Domestic Workers Overseas: Their Position and Protection in the Global Labour Market; From Amah-chieh to Indonesian Maids: A Comparative Study in the Context of Malaysia, circa 1930s-1990s. Women Migrant Workers and Visibility in Malaysia: The Role of Media in SocietyPart Six Adjusting Family Life/Globalizing Carework and Householding; Rethinking the "Left-Behind" in Chinese Migrations: A Case of Liberating Wives in 1950s South China; Marriage Migration: Love in Brokered Marriages in Contemporary Japan; Migration and Transformation: The Gendering of International Migration from the Philippines in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index.

Proletarian and Gendered Mass Migrations connects the 19th- proletarian and the 20th-and 21st-century domestics and caregiver labor migrations and migration systems in global transcultural perspective. It integrates male and female migrations and employs a systems approach with human agency perspectives.

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1800-1999


Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.
Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.
Émigration et immigration--Histoire--19e siècle.
Émigration et immigration--Histoire--20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration.


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