Illegal migration and gender in a global and historical perspective

"Two issues come to the fore in current debates over migration: illegal migration and the role of gender in illegal migration. This incisive study combines the two subjects and views the migration scholarship through the lens of the gender perspective, investigating definitions of citizenship a...

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Other Authors: Schrover, Marlou (Editor), Leun, Joanne van der (Editor), Lucassen, Leo (Editor), Quispel, G. C. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2008]©2008, 2008
Series:IMISCOE research
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Illegal migration and gender in a global and historical perspective / Marlou Schrover [and others]
  • Tracing back 'illegal aliens' in the Netherlands, 1850-1940 / Corrie van Eijl
  • Policing foreign men and women : gendered patterns of expulsion and migration control in Germany, 1880-1914 / Christiane Reinecke
  • Gendered borders : the case of 'illegal' migration from Iraq, the Horn of Africa and the former Soviet Union to the Netherlands / Ilse van Liempt
  • Old and new labour migration to Malaysia : from colonial times to the present / Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas
  • The romantic appeal of illegal migration : gender, masculinity and human smuggling from Pakistan / Ali Nobil Ahmad
  • Migrant domestic workers in the Middle East / Annelies Moors and Marina de Regt
  • Illegal migration, gender and health care : perspectives from Germany and the United States / Heide Castañeda
  • Includes bibliographical references