Gender and Rural Migration: Realities, Conflict and Change

ISBN-13: 9780367601201 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 280 str.

Glenda Tibe Bonifacio

Opis

This collection presents new research on gender and rural migration in Europe, North America, South America, China, and Australia. Scholars and practitioners from many disciplines highlight the impact of migration to non-urban centres for research, policy, and practice, as well as the significance of rurality to urban social relat

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Glenda Tibe Bonifacio  Part I: Contesting Rurality and Belonging  2. Stories of Butterflies in Winterland: In-Migrants’ Representations of Northern Coastal Realities in Norway  Mai Camilla Munkejord  3. Reproducing Gendered Rural Relations?: Tensions and Reconciliations in Young Women’s Narratives of Leaving and Returning in Newfoundland, Canada  Deatra Walsh  4. Mobility, Diversity, Identity: Challenges of Young Women in Rural Areas in Austria  Tatjana Fischer and Gerlind Weber  5. Escaping the Neon Glamour?: Potential Return Migration of Rural Migrants in China  Li Yu, Wei Xu, Yu Zhu and Liyue Lin  Part II: Women’s Empowerment and Social Relations  6. Empowerment of the Fields: Betabeleras and the Western Nebraska Sugar Industry  Tisa M. Anders and Rosa Elia Cobos  7. Migrating Women: Guardians of the Secrets of the Amazon Forest  Maria da Conceição Araújo Castro  8. Health, Mobility, Livelihood and Social Change in the Lives of Women in Rural Uzbekistan  Zulfiya Tursunova  Part III: Sexualities and Mobilities  9. A Family That Prays Together Stays Together?: Social Ties of Rural Sexual Minority Youth in Kentucky  Christopher J. Stapel  10. Sea-Change: Gender, Sexualities, Mobility and Home  Gordon Waitt  11. "The Lonely Planet": Filipino Temporary Foreign Workers, Housing Arrangements and Sexualities in Rural Alberta  Glenda Tibe Bonifacio

O autorze

Glenda Tibe Bonifacio is an Associate Professor in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Lethbridge.