Gender, Migration and Categorisation: Making Distinctions between Migrants in Western Countries, 1945-2010

book: Gender, Migration and Categorisation

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2013

Gender, Migration and Categorisation

Making Distinctions between Migrants in Western Countries, 1945-2010

Edited by: Marlou Schrover and Deirdre M. Moloney

In the series IMISCOE Research

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048521753

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About this book

This collection explores how Western countries have historically distinguished between categories of migrants—such as labor, refugee, family, and postcolonial migrants. Covering France, the United States, Turkey, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark, the contributors explain how concepts such as “refugee,” “family,” and “difference” have been defined through policy and public debate. Tightly intertwined, these definitions are continuously changing with the economic and geopolitical climate, as well as in relation to migrants’ gender, class, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, and countries of destination and origin.

Author / Editor information

Marlou Schrover is professor of migration history and social differences at Leiden University. Deirdre M. Moloney is director of fellowships advising at Princeton University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
1. Introduction. Making a difference Open Access Download PDF	7
2. Refugees and restrictionism Armenian women immigrants to the usa in the post-World War I era Yael Schacher Open Access Download PDF	55
3. New refugees? Manly war resisters prevent an asylum crisis in the Netherlands, 1968-1973 Tycho Walaardt Open Access Download PDF	75
4. A gender-blind approach in Canadian refugee processes Mexican female claimants in the new refugee narrative Monica Boyd and Joanne Nowak Open Access Download PDF	105
5. Queer asylum us policies and responses to sexual orientation and transgendered persecution Connie Oxford Open Access Download PDF	127
6. Belonging and membership Postcolonial legacies of colonial family law in Dutch immigration policies Sarah van Walsum, Guno Jones and Susan Legêne Open Access Download PDF	149
7. Blood matters Sarkozy’s immigration policies and their gendered impact Catherine Raissiguier Open Access Download PDF	175
8. Gender, inequality and integration Swedish policies on migrant incorporation and the position of migrant women Maja Cederberg Open Access Download PDF	193
9. Take off that veil and give me access to your body An analysis of Danish debates about Muslim women’s head and body covering Rikke Andreassen Open Access Download PDF	215
10. Multiculturalism, dependent residence status and honour killings Explaining current Dutch intolerance towards ethnic minorities from a gender perspective (1960-2000) Marlou Schrover Open Access Download PDF	231
11. Conclusion Gender, migration and cross-categorical research Marlou Schrover and Deirdre Moloney Open Access Download PDF	255
About the authors Open Access Download PDF	265

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 268

eBook

Published: October 17, 2013
ISBN: 9789048521753