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Women, Migration, and Aging in the Americas: Analyzing Dependence and Autonomy in Old Age book cover

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Women, Migration, and Aging in the Americas Analyzing Dependence and Autonomy in Old Age

Edited By Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga Copyright 2023
202 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

202 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Women, Migration, and Aging in the Americas analyzes how immigrant women have coped with life after they settled in the Americas, from the 19th–21st centuries. It explores their empowerment processes, the type of gender inequalities they faced, and their destinies as they aged; whether they resided in the destination country throughout their lives or returned to their home country. The book... Read more

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments

1 Introduction
MARIE-PIERRE ARRIZABALAGA

PART I: Women, Households, and Aging

2 French Immigrant Women and Their Aging Experiences in California, 1880–1940
MARIE-PIERRE ARRIZABALAGA

3 Aging French-Canadian Immigrant Women in the U.S. in 1910: North American Comparative Perspectives
DANIELLE GAUVREAU AND MARIE-ÈVE HARTON

4 The Grandmother Exception: The Role of Family Relationships in the History of U.S. Immigration Policy and Practice
SUZANNE M. SINKE

PART II: Isolated Women and Aging

5 Open or Closed Horizons? Personal Accounts on the Emigration/Transfer of Basque Nuns to the Americas
ÓSCAR ÁLVAREZ-GILA

6 Women and War: Aging, Migration, and Violence in the Mexico–U.S. Borderlands
VERÓNICA CASTILLO-MUÑOZ

PART III: Women and Aging as Transnational Experiences

7 From Providing Care to Requiring Care: The Impact of Migration on the Elderly in Paraguay
NURIA PENA AND MARCELA CERRUTTI

8 The Importance of Integration in the Life Stories of Immigrant Women From Piaxtla, Mexico, Who Live in the United States
EMILIO MACEDA

9 Peule Female Migration to the Americas and Their Return to Guinea in Old Age: Evolution of Gender Relations in the Mamou Region
MAMADOU SOUNOUSSY DIALLO

Index

Biography

Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga is Professor of American Studies at the Institute of International Studies and Modern Languages of CY Cergy Paris Université, France, and member of AGORA research group.

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