Gender and U.S. immigration contemporary trends

• Main Author: Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, Calif University of California Press 2003
• Edition: 1
• 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
• ISBN: 9780520225619; 9780520237391; 0520225619; 0520237390; 0520929861; 9780520929869
• DOI: 10.1525/9780520929869

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...