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Gender and Immigration

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Gregory A. Kelson
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  2. Debra L. DeLaet

    1. Drake University, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: The Invisibility of Women in Scholarship on International Migration

    1. Introduction: The Invisibility of Women in Scholarship on International Migration

      • Debra L. DeLaet
      Pages 1-17

  3. The Economic Status of International Female Migrants

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Seeds for Self-Sufficiency? Policy Contradictions at the US—Mexico Border

      • Kathleen Staudt
      Pages 21-37

    3. Labor Migration and International Sexual Division of Labor: A Feminist Perspective

      • Shu-Ju Ada Cheng
      Pages 38-58

    4. Asian Women in Business in Australia

      • David Ip, Constance Lever-Tracy
      Pages 59-81

    5. Immigration Policy, Cultural Norms, and Gender Relations Among Indian-American Motel Owners

      • Nandini Narain Assar
      Pages 82-102

    6. Third World Immigrant Women in American Higher Education

      • Cecilia G. Manrique, Gabriel G. Manrique
      Pages 103-123

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 216-218
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An exploration of the varied and complex ways in which women experience international migration: the chapters are concerned primarily with the question of whether international migration provides women with opportunities for liberating themselves from subordinate gender roles in their countries of origin.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Drake University, USA

    Debra L. DeLaet

About the editors

NANDINI NARAIN ASSAR PhD candidate in sociology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, BRIGITTE H.BECHTOLD Professor of Sociology and Director of the Women Studies Program, Central Michigan University SHU-JU ADA CHENG PhD student in sociology, University of Texas, Austin LUDMILA DZIEWIECKA-BOKUN Associate Professor in Politics of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wroclaw (Poland), SEPALI GURUGE M.S.Candidate in Nursing, University of Toronto DAVID IP Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Queensland, Australia, CONSTANCE LEVER-TRACY Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, CECILIA G.MANRIQUE Associate Professor of Political Science/Public Administration, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse GABRIEL MANRIQUE Professor of Economics and chair of the Department of Economics, Winona State University, LYNN MORRISON PhD candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, LARISSA I.REMENNICK Assistant Professor in the Graduate Program in Medical Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, LISA SIMONS PhD student in international politics, Graduate School of International Studies, Denver University, KYMBERLY ANNE SNARR currently pursuing her Masters of Science, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto KATHLEEN STAUDT Professor of Political Science, University of Texas, El Paso.

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