African Women Immigrants in the United States : Crossing Transnational Borders / / by J. Arthur
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| Autore: |
Arthur J
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| Titolo: |
African Women Immigrants in the United States : Crossing Transnational Borders / / by J. Arthur
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2009. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (243 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.896/6073 |
| 305.8966073 | |
| Soggetto topico: | America—History |
| Asia—History | |
| Sociology | |
| Ethnology—Africa | |
| Anthropology | |
| History of the Americas | |
| Asian History | |
| Gender Studies | |
| African Culture | |
| Sociology, general | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Africa, West Emigration and immigration |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-224) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This title 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 and are shaped by the process of international migration. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | African Women Immigrants in the United States |
| ISBN: | 1-282-67427-7 |
| 9786612674273 | |
| 0-230-62391-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826617003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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