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When Women Come First : Gender and Class in Transnational Migration /

With a subtle yet penetrating understanding of the intricate interplay of gender, race, and class, Sheba George examines an unusual immigration pattern to analyze what happens when women who migrate before men become the breadwinners in the family. Focusing on a group of female nurses who moved from...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: George, Sheba Mariam, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction -- Contradictions of gender when women immigrate first -- Work: nursing, women's networks, and men 'tied to a stake' -- Home: redoing gender in immigrant households -- Community: creating Little Kerala and the paradox of 'men who play' in the church -- Transnational connections: the Janus-faced production of an immigrant community -- Conclusions. 
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