Author: Buijs, Gina ; editor:
Title: Migrant Women : Crossing Boundaries and Changing Identities
Description: Oxford, Berg, 1993. orig.wrappers. 21x14cm, vii,204 pp. PAPERBACK. Series: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Women, Vol. 7.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The gendered dynamics of Quechua colonisation : relations of centre and periphery in Peru / Sarah Lund Skar -- Reconstructing life : Chilean refugee women and the dilemmas of exile / Marita Eastmond -- Defining gender in a second exile : Palestinian women in West Berlin / Dima Abdulrahim -- Patterns of adaptation : Somali and Bangladeshi women in Britain / Hazel Summerfield -- Identities constructed and reconstructed : representations of Asian women in Britain / Parminder Bhachu -- International and internal migration : the changing identity of Catholic and Hindu women in Goa / Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes -- Vietnamese refugees in Hong Kong : behaviour and control / Linda Hitchcox -- Female migration and social mobility : British female domestic servants to South Africa, 1860-1914 / Cecillie Swaisland -- Women alone : migrants from Transkei employed in rural Natal / Gina Buijs.

Keywords: Immigration Sociology, Immigrants, Refugees, Immigrant Women, Gender Identity, Anthropology, , ,