Women, Gender and Labour Migration

Approximately half of all migrants are today are female. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which attention to gender is moving debates away from old theories that have long dominated the field of migration studies.

1. Introduction: gender and the experience of migration Pamela Sharpe 2. Women migrants as global and local agents: new research strategies on gender and migration Christiane Harzig 3. Leaving home to help the family? Male and female temporary migrants in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Spain Carmen Saras^D~ua 4. Labour migration, family and community in early modern Japan Mary Louise Nagata 5. Women and long distance trade migration in the nineteenth-century Netherlands Marlou Schrover 6. Nowhere at home? Female migrants in the nineteenth-century Habsburg monarchy Sylvia Hahn 7. Gender, family, work and migration in early nineteenth-century Scotland David Tidswell 8. Wives or workers? Single British female migration to colonial Australia Jan Gothard 9. A historical perspective on female migrants: motivations and strategies of nineteenth-century hessians Simone Wegge 10. When the migrants are men; Italy's women and transnationalism as a working-class way of life Donna Gabaccia 11. Gender and twentieth-century Irish migration 1921-71 Enda Delaney 12. Maids on the move: images of femininity and European women's labour migration during the inter-war years Barbara Henkes 13. Female migration and the farm family economy in inter-war Japan Janet Hunter 14. Migrancy, marriage and family in the Ciskei reserve of South Africa 1945-1959 Anne Mager 15. Women and migrants: continuity and change in patterns of female migration in Latin America Paulina de los Reyes