Gender and U.S. immigration contemporary trends

Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. (Added Author).

Summary: 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 shaping immigration patterns. This collection of essays brings together work on this subject.

Record details

ISBN: 9781282357068
ISBN: 1282357069
ISBN: 9780520237391 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780520225619 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0520237390 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0520225619 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781597346290
ISBN: 1597346292
ISBN: 0520929861 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780520929869 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 393 pages)
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Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2003.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Some chapters were previously published in various sources. Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Gender and immigration : a retrospective and introduction / Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo -- Engendering migration studies : the case of new immigrants in the United States / Patricia R. Pessar -- Strategic instantiations of gendering in the global economy / Saskia Sassen -- The global context of gendered labor migration from the Philippines to the United States / James A. Tyner -- Gender and labor in Asian immigrant families / Yen Le Espiritu -- The intersection of work and gender : Central American immigrant women and employment in California / Cecilia Menjívar -- Israeli and Russian Jews : gendered perspectives on settlement and return migration / Steven J. Gold -- Gendered ethnicity : creating a Hindu Indian identity in the United States / Prema Kurien -- Disentangling race-gender work experiences : second-generation Caribbean young adults in New York City / Nancy Lopez -- Gendered geographies of home : mapping second- and third-generation Puerto Ricans' sense of home / Maura I. Toro-Morn, Marixsa Alicea -- De madres a hijas : gendered lessons on virginity across generations of Mexican immigrant women / Gloria González-López -- Raising children, and growing up, across national borders : comparative perspectives on age, gender, and migration / Barrie Thorne ... [and others] -- "We don't sleep around like white girls do" : family, culture, and gender in Filipina American lives / Yen Le Espiritu -- Engendering transnational migration : a case study of Salvadorans / Sarah J. Mahler -- "I'm here, but I'm there" : the meanings of Latina transnational motherhood / Pierette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Ernestine Avila -- Gender, status, and the state in transnational spaces : the gendering of political participation and Mexican hometown associations / Luin Goldring -- "The blue passport" : gender and the social process of naturalization among Dominican immigrants in New York City / Audrey Singer, Greta Gilbertson.
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Reproduction Note:	Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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