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Gender and Migration

Gender and Migration

By Caroline Sweetman

ISBN: 9780855983994

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Synopsis
The articles in this collection explore the wide range of reasons why women and men decide to move within and outside their native countries, whether it be for employment, upon marriage or in response to conflict. The authors stress the importance of seeing an individual migrant in her or his context as a member of a social network, spanning different locations. Understanding these links helps us to understand migration as part of a wider strategy for making a living. The articles also explore how migration may offer women a chance to challenge oppressive gender relations: migrants are exposed to different ways of being and doing, which show that culture is neither universal or fixed. Conversely, migration may be a route into continuing gender-based discrimination, because women become isolated from their support systems.
Table of Contents
* Editorial
Caroline Sweetman

* 'Frustrated and displaced': Filipina domestic workers in Canada
Nona Grandea with Joanna Kerr

* Gujarati migrants search for modernity in Britain
Emma Crewe and Uma Kothari

* Workers on the move: seasonal migration and changing social relations in rural India
Ben Rogaly

* Food shortages and gender relations in Ikafe settlement, Uganda
Linda Payne

* Mental illness and social stigma: experiences in a Pakistani community in the UK
Erica L Wheeler

* More words but no action?; Forced migration and trafficking of women
Francine Pickup

* The use and abuse of female domestic workers from Sri Lanka in Lebanon
Lina Abu-Habib

* Migration, ethnicity, and conflict: Oxfam's experience of working with Roma communities in Tuzla, Bosnia-Hercegovina
Alex Jones

* Resources

* Further reading

* Journals and Newsletters

* Videos

* Organisations

* Forced migration

* Web sites

Details

Sub Title	No
Author	Caroline Sweetman
Editor	No
Width (mm)	189mm
Height (mm)	248mm
Thickness (mm)	6mm
Number of Pages	72
Number of Illustrations	No
Format	Paperback / softback

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