Gender and Migration (The International Library of Studies on Migration series, 10)

Product Description This volume demonstrates the ways in which a gender perspective has been incorporated into existing themes and methods of migration research and has also led to the development of new areas of interest. It draws together the most important published articles on gender and migration in North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia in order to highlight major theoretical developments relating to employment, gender relations, household organisation, identity, citizenship, transnationalism and migration policy. In the introduction the editors provide an overview of these key developments in gender and migration research, as well as suggesting topics for future research.Gender and Migration will be a valuable resource for demographers, geographers and gender studies researchers. Review '. . . introduces the reader to a range of informative, interesting, persuasive and well-argued papers on gender and migration. As such, it represents an important and overdue acknowledgement of the centrality of gender to explanations and accounts of international migration.' About the Author Edited by Katie Willis, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK and Brenda Yeoh, Raffles Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Geography, and Research Leader, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore