Wendy Webster

Gendering Migration (eBook, PDF)

Masculinity, Femininity and Ethnicity in Post-War Britain
Redaktion: Ryan, Louise

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Gendering Migration demonstrates the significance of studying migration through the lens of gender and ethnicity and the contribution this perspective makes to migration histories. Considering the impact of migration on masculine and feminine identities, it extends our understanding of questions of gender and migration, focusing on the history of migration to Britain after the Second World War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351934343
• Artikelnr.: 49354901

Autorenporträt

Louise Ryan is Deputy Head of the Social Policy Research Centre and Senior Research Fellow at Middlesex University, UK. Wendy Webster is Professor of Contemporary British History at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Introduction
Louise Ryan and Wendy Webster; 'The black peril': race
masculinity and migration during the First World War
Richard Smith; Britain and the refugees of Europe
1939-50
Wendy Webster; Bilateral relations: British soldiers and German women
Inge Weber-Newth; Male and female Polishness in post-war Leicester: gender and its intersections in a refugee community
Kathy Burrell; Gender
race and the ideal labour force
Dolly Smith Wilson; Notions of 'home' and belonging among Greeks in the UK
Venetia Evergeti; Becoming nurses: Irish women
migration and identity through the life course
Louise Ryan; Spaniards in the UK - a successful female post-industrial migration
Tony Morgan; Gender and generation in Pakistani migration: a critical study of masculinity
Ali Nobil Ahmad; 'No job for a grown man': transformations in labour and masculinity among Kurdish migrants in London
Sarah J. Keeler; Masculinity and migration: life stories of East African Asian men
Joanna Herbert; Index.