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Gender and Immigration

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It is widely assumed that international migration results primarily from the labour migration of male workers, and that female migration is limited mainly to the low-wage labour sector of the global economy. But in fact women and men migrate across international boundaries at roughly the same rate. This collection of essays explores the diverse and complex ways in which women in a variety of occupational and social categories experience international relocation. The contributors examine whether international migration provides women with opportunities for liberation from the subordinate gender roles of their countries of origin, or whether they face both traditional and new forms of subordination and discrimination in their host societies. The study encompasses unskilled workers on the US-Mexican border, Filipino mail-order brides, Indian-American motel owners, Asian businesswomen and Russian immigrants to Israel.
Gregory A. Kelson is Executive Director of the Institute for Women and Children's Policy, an international policymaking think-tank in Chicago. Debra L. DeLaet is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa.
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