Gender, migration and categorisation : making distinctions between migrants in Western countries, 1945-2010 / / Marlou Schrover & Deirdre M. Moloney (eds) [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNISA996210808003316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2013
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: IMISCOE research
• Classificazione: MS 1560
• Disciplina: 304.8
• Soggetti: Emigration and immigration - Government policy - Western countries; Women immigrants - Western countries; Immigrant families - Government policy - Western countries; Emigration and immigration - Social aspects - Western countries; Emigration and immigration - Sex differences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Feb 2021).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Leg?ene -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.