Gender, migration and categorisation : making distinctions between migrants in Western Countries, 1945-2010 /
All people are equal, according to Thomas Jefferson, but all migrants are not. In this volume, twelve eminent scholars describe and analyse how in countries such as France, the United States, Turkey, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark distinctions were made through history between...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2013]
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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| Series: | IMISCOE research.
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| Summary: | All people are equal, according to Thomas Jefferson, but all migrants are not. In this volume, twelve eminent scholars describe and analyse how in countries such as France, the United States, Turkey, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark distinctions were made through history between migrants and how these were justified in policies and public debates. The chapters form a triptych, addressing in three clusters the problematisation of questions such as 'who is a refugee', 'who is family' and 'what is difference'. The chapters in this volume show that these are not separate issues. They intersect in ways that vary according to countries of origin and settlement, economic climate, geopolitical situation, as well as by gender, and by class, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation of the migrants. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (268 pages, 4 unnumbered pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-272). |
| ISBN: | 9789048521753 9048521750 908964573X 9789089645739 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed November 18, 2013). |