Title: Proletarian and gendered mass migrations : a global perspective on continuities and discontinuities from the 19th to the 21st centuries /
Authors: Hoerder, Dirk.; Kaur, Amarjit, 1948-
Year: 2013
Subjects: Foreign workers Cross-cultural studies.; Foreign workers History.; Women foreign workers History.; Working class History; Emigration and immigration Economic aspects; Emigration and immigration History
Abstract: This book connects the 19th- and 20th-century labor migrations and migration systems in global transcultural perspective. It emphasizes macro-regional internal continuities or discontinuities and interactions between and within macro-regions. The essays look at migrant workers experiences in constraining frames and the options they seize or constraints they circumvent. It traces the development from 19th-century proletarian migrations to industries and plantations across the globe to 20th- and 21st-century domestics and caregiver migrations. Itintegrates male and female migration and shows how women have always been present in mass migrations. Studies on historical development over time are supplemented by case studies on present migrations in Asia and from Asia. A systems approach is combined with human agency perspectives.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE INTRODUCTION -- Understanding International Migration: Comparative and Transcultural Perspectives / Dirk Hoerder -- Transcultural Approaches to Gendered Labour Migration: From the Nineteenth-Century Proletarian to Twenty-First-Century Caregiver Mass Migrations / Dirk Hoerder -- Globalizing the Household in East Asia / Mike Douglass -- pt. TWO ATLANTIC WORLD: EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS -- Domestic Service and Urbanization in Latin America from the Nineteenth Century to the Present / Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof -- Feminization and Problematization of Migration: Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Marlou Schrover -- Migration and Family Systems in Russia and the Soviet Union, Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries / Gijs Kessler -- Femina migrans: Agency of European Women Migrating to Domestic Work in North America, 1880s to 1950s / Dirk Hoerder -- pt. THREE THE AFRICAS AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN --