Gender and Insecurity: Migrant Women in Europe

ISBN-13: 9781138708457 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 208 str.

Jane Freedman

Opis

This title was first published in 2003. Gender and Insecurity addresses various forms of insecurity and details ways in which these might be addressed. Further, it looks at the ways in which immigrant women have themselves tried to fight against insecurity through their own political mobilisation.

Recenzje

'This edited volume is a collection of very well written and well researched chapters (some by authors who are activist-researchers) and offers rich insights into the situation of women migrants in the south of Europe...All chapters are very interesting and enjoyable to read.' Journal of Population Research

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: a gendered analysis of migration in Europe, Jane Freedman. Part I: Political Insecurities: The Gendered Effects of Immigration and Asylum Policies: Ignored and isolated: women and asylum policy in the United Kingdom, Emma Clarence; Women migrants and asylum seekers in France: inequality and dependence, Claudie Lesselier; Mechanisms for Colombian and Ecuadorian women's entry into Spain: from spontaneous migration to trafficking of women, Laura Oso Casas. Part II: The Gendered Labour Market and Economic Insecurities: The globalization of domestic work: women migrants and neo-domesticity, Francesca Scrinzi; The integration of immigrant women into the Spanish labour market, Colectivo Ioé; Women, migration and the labour market: the case of France, Sabah Chaib; Selling sex: trafficking, prostitution and sex work amongst migrant women in Europe, Jane Freedman. Part III: Negotiating Social and Political Identities: Living with HIV: the experiences of migrant women from Africa in the UK, Jane Anderson; The politics of identity and community: migrant women from Turkey in Germany, Umut Erel; From maids to entrepreneurs: immigrant women in Greece, Gabriella Lazaridis; Index.

O autorze

Jane Freedman is a Lecturer in Politics within the Department of Politics, at the University of Southampton, UK.