Femina migrans: Agency of European Women Migrating to Domestic Work in North America, 1880s to 1950s

In: Proletarian and Gendered Mass Migrations
Authors:
Christiane Harzig
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Dirk Hoerder
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151–172
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004251380_008

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Proletarian and Gendered Mass Migrations

A Global Perspective on Continuities and Discontinuities from the 19th to the 21st Centuries

Series:  Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 12/1 and  Studies in Global Migration History, Volume: 12/1
Cover Proletarian and Gendered Mass Migrations
E-Book ISBN:
9789004251380
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2013
Preliminary Material
Understanding International Migration: Comparative and Transcultural Perspectives
Transcultural Approaches to Gendered Labour Migration: From the Nineteenth-Century Proletarian to Twenty-First-Century Caregiver Mass Migrations
Globalizing the Household in East Asia
Domestic Service and Urbanization in Latin America from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
Feminization and Problematization of Migration: Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Migration and Family Systems in Russia and the Soviet Union, Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries
Interdependence and Convergence: Migration, Men, Women, and Work in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1800–1975
Migrations in the Maghreb and Western Mediterranean
“Women Were Strong”: Gender and Migration from the Eastern Mediterranean
Chinese Emigration in Global Context, 1850–1940
Japan, Labour Migration, and the Global Order of Difference
Shifting Geographies of Migration in Southeast Asia: Continuity and Change in Proletarian and Gendered Migrations
Migration into Thailand: Change and Continuity from a Gender Perspective
Indonesian Domestic Workers Overseas: Their Position and Protection in the Global Labour Market
From Amah-chieh to Indonesian Maids: A Comparative Study in the Context of Malaysia circa 1930s–1990s
Women Migrant Workers and Visibility in Malaysia: The Role of Media in Society
Rethinking the “Left-Behind” in Chinese Migrations: A Case of Liberating Wives in 1950s South China
Marriage Migration: Love in Brokered Marriages in Contemporary Japan
Migration and Transformation: The Gendering of International Migration from the Philippines in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index

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