1st Edition
Migrant Women Crossing Boundaries and Changing Identities
Edited By Gina Buijs
Copyright 1993
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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Population movements on a large scale have been a prominent feature of modern society, but there have been as yet few attempts to look beneath the surface of mass movements of people. There is a particularly urgent need to disentangle the specific experience of women who are critically involved in the process of adaptation to new worlds and ways of life. Most of the women studied in this volume... Read more
Contents: G. Buijs, Introduction - S.L. Skar, The Gendered Dynamics of Quechua Colonisation: Relations of Centre and Periphery in Peru - M. Eastmond, Reconstructing Life: Chilean Women Refugees and the Dilemmas of Exile - D. Abdulrahim, Defining Gender in Exile: Palestinian Women in West Berlin - H. Summerfield, Patterns of Adaptation: Somali and Bangladeshi Women in Britain - P. Bhachu, Identities Constructed and Reconstructed: Representations of Asian Women in Britain - S. Mascarenhas-Keyes, International and Internal Migration: Changes in the Identity of Catholic and Hindu Women in Goa - L. Hitchcox, Vietnamese Refugees in Hong Kong: Behaviour and Control - C. Swaisland, Female Migration and Social Mobility: Female Domestic Servants to South Africa, 1860-1914 - G. Buijs, Women Alone: Migrants from Transkei Employed in Rural Natal
Biography
Gina Buijs Professor of Anthropology at the University of Venda,South Africa, formerly Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Rhodes University, and visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, University of Oxford
