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Gender and Migration
Published: 1998
Pages: 72
eBook: 9780855987299
Paperback: 9780855983994
The articles in this collection explore the wide range of reasons why women and men decide to move within and outside their native countries, whether it be for employment, upon marriage or in response to conflict. The authors stress the importance of seeing an individual migrant in her or his context as a member of a social network, spanning different locations. Understanding these links helps us to understand migration as part of a wider strategy for making a living. The articles also explore how migration may offer women a chance to challenge oppressive gender relations: migrants are exposed to different ways of being and doing, which show that culture is neither universal or fixed. Conversely, migration may be a route into continuing gender-based discrimination, because women become isolated from their support systems.
- * Editorial
- Caroline Sweetman
- * 'Frustrated and displaced': Filipina domestic workers in Canada
- Nona Grandea with Joanna Kerr
- * Gujarati migrants search for modernity in Britain
- Emma Crewe and Uma Kothari
- * Workers on the move: seasonal migration and changing social relations in rural India
- Ben Rogaly
- * Food shortages and gender relations in Ikafe settlement, Uganda
- Linda Payne
- * Mental illness and social stigma: experiences in a Pakistani community in the UK
- Erica L Wheeler
- * More words but no action?; Forced migration and trafficking of women
- Francine Pickup
- * The use and abuse of female domestic workers from Sri Lanka in Lebanon
- Lina Abu-Habib
- * Migration, ethnicity, and conflict: Oxfam's experience of working with Roma communities in Tuzla, Bosnia-Hercegovina
- Alex Jones
- * Resources
- * Further reading
- * Journals and Newsletters
- * Videos
- * Organisations
- * Forced migration
- * Web sites
Caroline Sweetman
Caroline Sweetman is Editor of the international journal Gender & Development and works for Oxfam GB.
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