Gender roles, relations, and ideologies are major aspects of migration.
This timely book argues that understanding gender relations is vital to
a full and more nuanced explanation of both the causes and the
consequences of migration, in the past and at present. Through an
exploration of gendered labor markets, laws and policies, and the
transnational model of migration, Caroline Brettell tackles a variety of
issues such as how gender shapes the roles that men and women play in
the construction of immigrant family and community life, debates
concerning transnational motherhood, and how gender structures the
immigrant experience for men and women more broadly.
This book will appeal to students and scholars of immigration, race and
ethnicity, and gender studies and offers a definitive guide to the key
conceptual issues surrounding gender and migration.