African women immigrants in the United States : crossing transnational borders /

African Women Immigrants in the United States depicts how immigrant women use international migration as a strategy to challenge existing patriarchal hegemonies operative both in the United States and Africa. It also weaves together the multidimensional strands of how African immigrant women shape a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arthur, John A., 1958-2016
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
West Africans > United States > Social conditions.
Women immigrants > United States > Social conditions.
Africains de l'Ouest > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Immigrantes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Emigration and immigration
Women immigrants > Social conditions
Westafrikanische Einwanderin
Soziale Situation
Africa, West > Emigration and immigration.
Afrique occidentale > Émigration et immigration.
West Africa
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Centering gender in African regional migration
  • Passage from the savannah grasslands of Africa to America
  • Gender and forced migration : rebuilding shattered lives
  • Gender and transnational Black immigrant identities
  • Gender, migration, and work
  • Rethreading fertility decisions in new settings.

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