Author: Buijs, Gina. (Ed).
Title: Migrant Women. Crossing Boundaries and Changing Identities.
Description: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Women. Volume 7. Berg. Oxford 1993. Printed white boards. 204pp 8vo. No inscription. except spine fading a Fine unread copy. ISBN: 085496729X Most of the articles had their origins in seminar papers delivered at the Oxford Womens Series seminars held in the Hilary Term of 1990 under the auspices of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford. Articles included: Sarah Lund Skar, The Gendered Dynamics of Quechua Colonisation: Relations Of Centre and Periphery in Peru. Marita Eastmond, Reconstructing Life: Chilean Refugee Women and the Dilemmas of Exile. Dima Abulrahim, Defining Gender in a Second Exile: Palestinian Women in West Berlin. Hazel Summerfield, Patterns of Adaptation: Somali and Bangladeshi Women in Britain. Parminder Bhachu, Identities Constructed and Reconstructed: Representation of Asian Women in Britain. Stella Mascarenhas-Keyes, International and Internal Migration: The Changing Identity of Catholic and Hindu Women in Goa. Linda Hitchcox, Vietnamese Refugees in Hong Kong: Behaviour and Control. Cecillie Swaisland, Female Migration and Social Mobility: British Female Domestic Servants to South Africa 1960-1914. Gina Buijs, Women Alone: Migrants from Transkei Employed in Rural Natal.

Keywords: anthropology south southern africa african migration feminism