Gender and U.S. immigration contemporary trends

Resurgent immigration is one of the most powerful forces disrupting and realigning everyday life in the United States and elsewhere, and gender is one of the fundamental social categories anchoring and shaping immigration patterns. Yet the intersection of gender and immigration has received little a...

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Main Author Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Berkeley, Calif University of California Press 2003
Edition1
Subjects
academic
asian immigrants
cultural
Emigration
Emigration and immigration
employment
feminism
feminist
Gender
gender studies
global economy
immigrant experience
immigrant families
Immigrants
Immigration
labor
labor migration
mexican immigrants
migration
migration studies
motherhood
naturalization
philippines
scholarly
social history
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
social studies
Sociology
transnational
U.S.A
United States
United States > Emigration and immigration
us immigrants
virginity
Women
Women immigrants
Women immigrants > United States
womens issues
transnational
global economy
immigrant experience
gender
motherhood
scholarly
womens issues
academic
us immigrants
naturalization
labor migration
philippines
migration studies
immigration
gender studies
social history
virginity
employment
mexican immigrants
labor
cultural
asian immigrants
immigrant families
feminism
migration
social studies
feminist
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Table of Contents:
  • Gender and U.S. immigration: contemporary trends -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Gender and Immigration: A Retrospective and Introduction -- Chapter 2: Engendering Migration Studies: The Case of New Immigrants in the United States -- Chapter 3: Strategic Instantiations of Gendering in the Global Economy -- Part Two: Gender and Employment -- Chapter 4: The Global Context of Gendered Labor Migration from the Philippines to the United States -- Chapter 5: Gender and Labor in Asian Immigrant Families -- Chapter 6: The Intersection of Work and Gender: Central American Immigrant Women and Employment in California -- Chapter 7: Israeli and Russian Jews: Gendered Perspectives on Settlement and Return Migration -- Part Three: Engendering Racial and Ethnic Identities -- Chapter 8: Gendered Ethnicity: Creating a Hindu Indian Identity in the United States -- Chapter 9: Disentangling Race-Gender Work Experiences: Second-Generation Caribbean Young Adults in New York City -- Chapter 10: Gendered Geographies of Home: Mapping Second-and Third-Generation Puerto Ricans' Sense of Home -- Part Four: Gender, Generation, and Immigration -- Chapter 11: De madres a hijas: Gendered Lessons on Virginity across Generations of Mexican Immigrant Women -- Chapter 12: Raising Children, and Growing Up, across National Borders: Comparative Perspectives on Age, Gender, and Migration -- Chapter 13: "We don't Sleep Around Like White Girls do": Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives -- Part Five: Gender, Citizenship, and the Transnational -- Chapter 14: Engendering Transnational Migration: A Case Study of Salvadorans -- Chapter 15: "I'm Here, but I'm There" : The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood -- Chapter 16: Gender, Status, and the State in Transnational Spaces: The Gendering of Political Participation and Mexican Hometown Associations -- Chapter 17: "The Blue Passport": Gender and the Social Process of Naturalization among Dominican Immigrants in New York City -- Contributors -- Index.
  • Front Matter Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CHAPTER 1: Gender and Immigration: CHAPTER 2: Engendering Migration Studies: CHAPTER 3: Strategic Instantiations of Gendering in the Global Economy CHAPTER 4: The Global Context of Gendered Labor Migration from the Philippines to the United States CHAPTER 5: Gender and Labor in Asian Immigrant Families CHAPTER 6: The Intersection of Work and Gender: CHAPTER 7: Israeli and Russian Jews: CHAPTER 8: Gendered Ethnicity: CHAPTER 9: Disentangling Race-Gender Work Experiences: CHAPTER 10: Gendered Geographies of Home: CHAPTER 11: De madres a hijas: CHAPTER 12: Raising Children, and Growing Up, across National Borders: CHAPTER 13: “We Don’t Sleep Around Like White Girls Do”: CHAPTER 14: Engendering Transnational Migration: CHAPTER 15: “I’m Here, but I’m There”: CHAPTER 16: Gender, Status, and the State in Transnational Spaces: CHAPTER 17: “The Blue Passport”: CONTRIBUTORS INDEX
  • Contents --
  • Chapter 1. Gender and Immigration: A Retrospective and Introduction --
  • Chapter 11. De madres a hijas: Gendered Lessons on Virginity across Generations of Mexican Immigrant Women --
  • Chapter 9. Disentangling Race-Gender Work Experiences: Second-Generation Caribbean Young Adults in New York City --
  • Contributors --
  • Chapter 17. “The Blue Passport”: Gender and the Social Process of Naturalization among Dominican Immigrants in New York City --
  • Part Two. Gender and Employment --
  • Index
  • Chapter 16. Gender, Status, and the State in Transnational Spaces: The Gendering of Political Participation and Mexican Hometown Associations --
  • Chapter 7. Israeli and Russian Jews: Gendered Perspectives on Settlement and Return Migration --
  • Chapter 14. Engendering Transnational Migration: A Case Study of Salvadorans --
  • Chapter 2. Engendering Migration Studies: The Case of New Immigrants in the United States --
  • Part Five. Gender, Citizenship, and the Transnational --
  • Chapter 15. “I’m Here, but I’m There”: The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood --
  • Acknowledgments --
  • Part Three. Engendering Racial and Ethnic Identities --
  • Chapter 8. Gendered Ethnicity: Creating a Hindu Indian Identity in the United States --
  • Chapter 10. Gendered Geographies of Home: Mapping Second- and Third-Generation Puerto Ricans’ Sense of Home --
  • Chapter 3. Strategic Instantiations of Gendering in the Global Economy --
  • Chapter 4. The Global Context of Gendered Labor Migration from the Philippines to the United States --
  • Chapter 12. Raising Children, and Growing Up, across National Borders: Comparative Perspectives on Age, Gender, and Migration --
  • Chapter 5. Gender and Labor in Asian Immigrant Families --
  • Chapter 13. “We Don’t Sleep Around Like White Girls Do”: Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives --
  • Part One. Introduction --
  • Part Four. Gender, Generation, and Immigration --
  • Frontmatter --
  • Chapter 6. The Intersection of Work and Gender: Central American Immigrant Women and Employment in California --