Proletarian and Gendered Mass Migrations
A Global Perspective on Continuities and Discontinuities from the 19th to the 21st Centuries
Edited by Dirk Hoerder, Arizona State University and Amarjit Kaur, University of New England
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Biographical note
Dirk Hoerder has taught worldwide migrations, borderland interactions, and sociology of acculturation at University of Bremen and Arizona State University and in Toronto and Paris. Publications include Cultures in Contact (Duke University Press, 2002), Historical Practice of Diversity (Berghahn Books, 2003), Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims (Brill, 2011).
Amarjit Kaur teaches at the University of New England, Australia, and focuses on international labour migration, forced migration in Southeast Asia, and issues of governance, inequality and labour rights. Publications include Wage Labour in Southeast Asia since 1840 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Women Workers in Industrialising Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
Amarjit Kaur teaches at the University of New England, Australia, and focuses on international labour migration, forced migration in Southeast Asia, and issues of governance, inequality and labour rights. Publications include Wage Labour in Southeast Asia since 1840 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Women Workers in Industrialising Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
Readership
All interested in labour history, migration history, women's history, global approaches, transcultural approaches, human agency approaches.
Table of contents
List of Maps, Tables and Figures
INTRODUCTION
Understanding International Migration: Comparative and Transcultural Perspectives, Amarjit Kaur and Dirk Hoerder
Transcultural Approaches to Gendered Labor Migration: From the Nineteenth-Century Proletarian to Twenty-First-Century Caregiver Migrations, Dirk Hoerder
Globalizing the Household in East Asia, Mike Douglass
ATLANTIC WORLD: EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS
Domestic Service and Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, Elizabeth A. Kuznesof
Feminisation of Migration and Problematisation of Migration: Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth century, Marlou Schrover
Migration and Family Systems in Russia and the Soviet Union, Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries, Gijs Kessler
Femina migrans: Agency of European Women Migrating to Domestic Work in North America, 1880s to 1950s, Christiane Harzig and Dirk Hoerder
THE AFRICAS AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Interdependence to Convergence: Migration, Men, and Work in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1800–1975, Dennis D. Cordell
Migrations in the Maghreb and Western Mediterranean, Kamel Kateb and Hassène Kassar
“Women Were Strong”: Gender and Immigration from the Eastern Mediterranean, Akram Khater
THE ASIAS
Chinese Emigration in Global Context, 1850–1940, Adam McKeown
Japan, Labour Migration, and the Global Order of Difference, Vera Mackie
Shifting Geographies of Migration in Southeast Asia: Continuity and Change in Proletarian and Gendered Migrations, Amarjit Kaur
Migration into Thailand: Change and Continuity from a Gender Perspective, Patcharawalai Wongboonsin
CASE STUDIES: SOUTHEAST ASIAN DOMESTIC AND CARE-WORKER MIGRATIONS
Indonesian Domestic Workers Overseas: Their Position and Protection in the Global Labour Market, Muhamad Nadratuzzaman Hosen and Aswatini Raharto
From Amah-chieh to Indonesian Maids: A Comparative Study in the Context of Malaysia circa 1930s–1990s, Ooi Keat Gin
Women Migrant Workers and Visibility in Malaysia: The Role of Media in Society, Kiranjit Kaur
ADJUSTING FAMILY LIFE / GLOBALIZING CAREWORK AND HOUSEHOLDING
Rethinking the “Left-Behind” in Chinese Migrations: A Case of Liberating Wives in 1950s South China, Shelly Chan
Marriage Migration: Love in Brokered Marriages in Contemporary Japan, Tomoko Nakamatsu
Migration and Transformation: The Gendering of International Migration from the Philippines in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries, Rochelle Ball
Notes on Contributors
Index
INTRODUCTION
Understanding International Migration: Comparative and Transcultural Perspectives, Amarjit Kaur and Dirk Hoerder
Transcultural Approaches to Gendered Labor Migration: From the Nineteenth-Century Proletarian to Twenty-First-Century Caregiver Migrations, Dirk Hoerder
Globalizing the Household in East Asia, Mike Douglass
ATLANTIC WORLD: EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS
Domestic Service and Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, Elizabeth A. Kuznesof
Feminisation of Migration and Problematisation of Migration: Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth century, Marlou Schrover
Migration and Family Systems in Russia and the Soviet Union, Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries, Gijs Kessler
Femina migrans: Agency of European Women Migrating to Domestic Work in North America, 1880s to 1950s, Christiane Harzig and Dirk Hoerder
THE AFRICAS AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Interdependence to Convergence: Migration, Men, and Work in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1800–1975, Dennis D. Cordell
Migrations in the Maghreb and Western Mediterranean, Kamel Kateb and Hassène Kassar
“Women Were Strong”: Gender and Immigration from the Eastern Mediterranean, Akram Khater
THE ASIAS
Chinese Emigration in Global Context, 1850–1940, Adam McKeown
Japan, Labour Migration, and the Global Order of Difference, Vera Mackie
Shifting Geographies of Migration in Southeast Asia: Continuity and Change in Proletarian and Gendered Migrations, Amarjit Kaur
Migration into Thailand: Change and Continuity from a Gender Perspective, Patcharawalai Wongboonsin
CASE STUDIES: SOUTHEAST ASIAN DOMESTIC AND CARE-WORKER MIGRATIONS
Indonesian Domestic Workers Overseas: Their Position and Protection in the Global Labour Market, Muhamad Nadratuzzaman Hosen and Aswatini Raharto
From Amah-chieh to Indonesian Maids: A Comparative Study in the Context of Malaysia circa 1930s–1990s, Ooi Keat Gin
Women Migrant Workers and Visibility in Malaysia: The Role of Media in Society, Kiranjit Kaur
ADJUSTING FAMILY LIFE / GLOBALIZING CAREWORK AND HOUSEHOLDING
Rethinking the “Left-Behind” in Chinese Migrations: A Case of Liberating Wives in 1950s South China, Shelly Chan
Marriage Migration: Love in Brokered Marriages in Contemporary Japan, Tomoko Nakamatsu
Migration and Transformation: The Gendering of International Migration from the Philippines in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries, Rochelle Ball
Notes on Contributors
Index
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