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Gender, migration and categorisation : making distinctions between migrants in Western Countries, 1945-2010 /

All people are equal, according to Thomas Jefferson, but all migrants are not. In this volume, twelve eminent scholars describe and analyse how in countries such as France, the United States, Turkey, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark distinctions were made through history between...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Schrover, Marlou, 1959- (Editor ), Moloney, Deirdre M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2013]
Colección:IMISCOE research.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Introduction: Making a difference / Marlou Schrover and Deirdre Moloney
  • Refugees and restrictionism: Armenian women immigrants to the USA in the post-World War I era / Yael Schacher
  • New refugees? Manly war resisters prevent an asylum crisis in the Netherlands, 1968-1973 / Tycho Walaardt
  • A gender-blind approach in Canadian refugee processes: Mexican female claimants in the new refugee narrative / Monica Boyd and Joanne Nowak
  • Queer asylum: us policies and responses to sexual orientation and transgendered persecution / Connie Oxford
  • Belonging and membership: Postcolonial legacies of colonial family law in Dutch immigration policies / Sarah van Walsum, Guno Jones and Susan Legêne
  • Blood matters: Sarkozy's immigration policies and their gendered impact / Catherine Raissiguier
  • Gender, inequality and integration: Swedish policies on migrant incorporation and the position of migrant women / Maja Cederberg
  • 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
  • Multiculturalism, dependent residence status and honour killings: Explaining current Dutch intolerance towards ethnic minorities from a gender perspective (1960-2000) / Marlou Schrover
  • Conclusion: Gender, migration and cross-categorical research / Marlou Schrover and Deirdre Moloney.