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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 anchoring and shaping immigration patterns. Yet the intersection of gender and immigration has received little attention in contemporary social science literature and immigration research. This book brings together some of the best work in this area, including essays by pioneers who have logged nearly two decades in the field of gender and immigration, and new empirical work by both young scholars and well-established social scientists bringing their substantial talents to this topic for the first time.
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Gender and U.S. Immigration
Gender and U.S. Immigration Contemporary Trends EDITED BY
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley
Los Angeles
London
The following chapters were originally published in American Behavioral Scientist , no. ( Jan. ), © by Sage Publications, and are reprinted here by permission of Sage Publications, Inc.: Chapter , “Engendering Migration Studies: The Case of New Immigrants in the United States,” by Patricia R. Pessar, pp. – Chapter , “The Global Context of Gendered Labor Migration from the Philippines to the United States,” by James A. Tyner, pp. – Chapter , “Gender and Labor in Asian Immigrant Families,” by Yen Le Espiritu, pp. – Chapter , “The Intersection of Work and Gender: Central American Immigrant Women and Employment in California,” by Cecilia Menjívar, pp. – Chapter , “Gendered Ethnicity: Creating a Hindu Indian Identity in the United States,” by Prema Kurien, pp. – Chapter , “Engendering Transnational Migration: A Case Study of Salvadorans,” by Sarah J. Mahler, pp. – The following chapter was originally published in Signs , no. (), © by the University of Chicago Press, and is reprinted here by permission of the University of Chicago Press: Chapter , “ ‘We Don’t Sleep Around Like White Girls Do’: Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives,” by Yen Le Espiritu, pp. – The following chapter was originally published in Gender & Society (). Chapter , “ ‘I’m Here, but I’m There’: The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood,” by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Ernestine Avila, pp. –. University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England © by the Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gender and U.S. immigration : contemporary trends / edited by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo. p. cm. Some chapters were previously published in various sources. Includes bibliographical references and index. --- (cloth : alk. paper) — --- (pbk. : alk. paper) . Women immigrants— United States. . United States—Emigration and immigration. I. Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette. . .—dc
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: . 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 ⁄
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