White Migrations [electronic resource] : Gender, Whiteness and Privilege in Transnational Migration /
Lundström, C.author.
From a multi-sited ethnography with Swedish migrant women in the United States, Singapore and Spain, the book explores gender vulnerabilities and racial and class privilege in contemporary feminized migration, filling a gap in literature on race and migration.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Table; Acknowledgements; 1 White Migrations: A Theoretical Outline; 2 A Multi-Sited Ethnography of Whiteness; 3 Doing Similarity in a White-Women''s Network; 4 Hierarchies of Whiteness in the United States; 5 Racial Divisions in Expatriate Lives in Singapore; 6 Disintegrating Whiteness in Southern Spain; 7 Gender and Whiteness in Motion; 8 Migration Studies Revisited; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From a multi-sited ethnography with Swedish migrant women in the United States, Singapore and Spain, the book explores gender vulnerabilities and racial and class privilege in contemporary feminized migration, filling a gap in literature on race and migration.
Sociology.
Emigration and immigration.
Ethnicity.
Social policy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Gender Studies.
Migration.
Ethnicity Studies.
Social Policy.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.