Migrations and Destinations: Reflections on the Histories of U.S. Immigrant Women

In 1991, co-author Donna Gabaccia asked readers of the Journal of American Ethnic History to ponder why the by-then large and still growing literature on immigrant women in the US had had such limited recognition and impact on both immigration and women's history. She argued that studies of imm...

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Published inJournal of American ethnic history Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 3 - 19
Main Authors Gabaccia, Donna R., Ruiz, Vicki L.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Champaign Transaction Periodicals Consortium 01.10.2006
University of Illinois Press
Subjects
American culture
American history
Analysis
Canneries
Citizenship
Communities
Ethnic Studies
Ethnicity
Historians
History
Human migration
Immigrants
Immigration
Memory
Men
Migrant communities
Motion picture criticism
Noncitizens
Transnationalism
United States history
Women immigrants
Womens studies
United States
United States > US
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Summary:In 1991, co-author Donna Gabaccia asked readers of the Journal of American Ethnic History to ponder why the by-then large and still growing literature on immigrant women in the US had had such limited recognition and impact on both immigration and women's history. She argued that studies of immigrant women, like many immigrant women themselves, seemed "nowhere at home." In this essay, Gabaccia and Ruiz re-visit that question, offering both a more positive assessment of the continued scholarship on immigrant women in the US and a preliminary assessment of the research that has appeared in the intervening 15 years.
ISSN:0278-5927
1936-4695
DOI:10.2307/27501778