Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective : Institutions Labour and Social Networks 16th to 20th Centuries This edited collection focuses on migrant women and their families aiming to study their migration patterns in a historical and gendered perspective from early modernity to contemporary times and to reassess the role and the nature of their commitment in migration dynamics. It develops an incisive dialogue between migration studies and gender studies. Migrant women men and their families are studied through three different but interconnected and overlapping standpoints that have been identified as crucial for a gender approach: institutions and law labour and the household economy and social networks. The book also promotes the potential of an inclusive approach tackling various types of migration (domestic and temporary movements long distance and international migration temporary seasonal mobility) and arguing that different migration phenomena can be observed and understood by posing common questions to different contexts. Migration patterns are shown to be multifaceted and stratified phenomena resulting from a range of entangled economic cultural and social factors. This book will be of interest to academics and students of economic history as well as those working in gender studies and migration studies. Beatrice Zucca Micheletto is a researcher at DISSGeA University of Padua (Italy). She is research affiliate at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (Campop) University of Cambridge UK where she has been Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow (2017 2019). She is research affiliate at the Groupe de Recherche d’Histoire (GRHis) University of Rouen Normandy (France). Her research focuses on women and gender history history of the family history of labour and apprenticeship history of migration and mobility history of charity institutions citizenship in early modern Italy and France. Chapter 1. Gender and Migration: an historical and inclusive perspective (Beatrice Zucca Michelletto) Part 1: Institutions law and identity Chapter 2. Tracing migration within urban spaces: women’s mobility and identification practices in Venice (sixteenth eighteenth centuries) (Teresa Bernardi) Chapter 3. Filling the gap making a profession. Midwives state control and medical care in mid nineteenth century Wallachia (Nicoleta Roman) Chapter 4. Foreign nannies and maids. A historical perspective on female immigration and domestic work in Italy (1960 1970) (Alessandra Gissi) Part 2: Labour and household economy Chapter 5. Skills training and kinship networks: women as economic migrants in Londons livery companies c. 1600 1800 (Sarah Birt) Chapter 6. Women labour migration and serfdom in the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth (sixteenth eighteenth centuries) (Mateusz Wyzga) Chapter 7. Staying or leaving: a female seasonal labour market in early modern Spain (1640 1690) (Gabriel Jover Avellà Joana Maria Pujades Mora) Chapter 8. Words at Work. Words on the Move. Textual Production of Migrant Women from Early Modern Prague Between Discourses and Practice (1570 1620) (Veronika Čapská) Chapter 9. Migration Marriage and Integration: Town Court Records and Imprints of Women Artisan Migrants in Sweden c. 1590‒1640 (Maija Ojala Fullwood) Chapter 10. Migration and the household economy of the poor in Catalonia c. 1762 1803 (Montserrat Carbonell Esteller Julie Marfany Joana Maria Pujadas Mora) Chapter 11. French migrant women as educators in Napoleonic Northern Italy (1804 1814) (Elisa Baccini) Chapter 12. Transnational Migration in Wallachia during the 1830s. A Difficult Road from Broader Themes to Micro History (Bogdan Mateescu) Part 3: Social networks: kinship and community ties Chapter 13. Family care and migration. Gendered paths from the Mediterranean mountains to Northern Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth century (Manuela Martini) Chapter 14. Migrant Brick and Tile Makers from the Island of Kythnos in Athens during the First Half of the Twentieth Century: A Gendered Perspective (Michalis Bardanis) Chapter 15.“Women Were Always There…”: Caribbean Immigrant Women Mutual Aid Societies and Benevolent Associations in the Early Twentieth Century (Tyesha Maddox) Chapter 16. Conclusion. Towards a multifactorial approach to migration studies (Beatrice Zucca Micheletto).