Women, gender, and diasporic lives
Subtitle: labor, community, and identity in Greek migrations
By: edited by Evangelia Tastsoglou.
Contributors: Tastsoglou, Evangelia.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780739125410; 9780739134917
Subjects: Women immigrants -- Greece -- Social conditions; Women employees -- Greece; Community development -- Greece
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: En/gendering the Greek diaspora(s) : theoretical and historical considerations / Evangelia Tastsoglou; title: Greek migrant women in Germany : strategies of autonomy in diaspora / Maria Kontos; title: Women networking for families : class, gender and ethnicity in job searches among Greek immigrants in New York / Anna Karpathakis and Helaine Harris; title: The business of social change : gender and the ethnic enclave economy in the Greek immigrant community of Astoria / Maria Vouyouka-Sereti; title: "The temptations of new surroundings" : family, state, and transnational gender politics in the movement of Greek domestic workers to Canada in the 1950s and 1960s / Evangelia Tastsoglou; title: The Greeks in Canada : immigration, socio-economic mobility and ethnic identity / Efrosini Gavaki; title: From Napster to MEGA : power, gender, and generation in a Greek-Canadian community / Anastasia N. Panagakos; title: Women's status in the Greek colonies of Egypt / Matoula Tomara-Sideris; title: Living diaspora "back home"-daughters of Greek emigrants in Greece / Georgina Tsolidis; title: Gender and ethno-regional identity among Greek Australians : intersections / Vassiliki Chryssanthopoulou; title: Black Greeks or white Africans? : landscapes of divergence and poetics of belonging / Marina Petronoti.