1st Edition
Migration and Gender in the Developed World
344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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The subject of migration has traditionally been analysed through the lens of economic factors. The importance of adopting a gender sensitive perspective to academic work is now generally appreciated. Migration and Gender in the Developed World contains chapters from a diverse range of leading contributors who apply such a perspective to the study of migration in the countries of the developed... Read more
Tables and figures, 1 Introduction, 2 A longitudinal and regional analysis of gender-specific social and spatial mobilities in England and Wales 1981–91, 3 Gender variations in migration destination choice, 4 The employment consequences of migration, 5 Who gets on the escalator?, 6 The effect of family migration, migration history, and selfselection on married women’s labour market achievement where:, 7 Family migration and female participation in the labour market, 8 Migration, marriage and the life course, 9 Residential relocation of couples, 10 To follow the chicken or not?, 11 Gender variations in the characteristics of migrants living alone in England and Wales 1991, 12 On the journeys of the gentrifiers, 13 Gender issues in Irish rural out-migration, 14 Gender relations and identities in the colonization of ‘Middle England’, 15 Residential change, 16 Gender, migration and household change in elderly age groups, 17 Differential migrations through later life, 18 Inside and outside the Pale, Index
Biography
Paul Boyle, Keith Halfacree
'the book makes an important contribution to the migration literature.' - Progress in Human Geography.
'...this book provides a comprehensive overview of research on gender and migration within Britain and will be a useful resource for anyone with an interest in understanding the impact of gender on migration patterns and processes.' - Rebekah Widdowfield, Journal of Rural Studies 16 (2000)
