Research Catalog

Title

Proletarian and gendered mass migrations : a global perspective on continuities and discontinuities from the 19th to the 21st centuries / edited by Dirk Hoerder and Amarjit Kaur.

Publication

Leiden : Brill, 2013.

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Additional Authors

Hoerder, Dirk.

Description

xiv, 568 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.

Summary

This book connects the 19th- and 20th-century labor migrations and migration systems in global transcultural perspective. It emphasizes macro-regional internal continuities or discontinuities and interactions between and within macro-regions. The essays look at migrant workers experiences in constraining frames and the options they seize or constraints they circumvent. It traces the development from 19th-century proletarian migrations to industries and plantations across the globe to 20th- and 21st-century domestics and caregiver migrations. It integrates male and female migration and shows how women have always been present in mass migrations. Studies on historical development over time are supplemented by case studies on present migrations in Asia and from Asia. A systems approach is combined with human agency perspectives.

Series Statement

• Studies in global social history ; volume 12
• Studies in global migration history ; volume 1

Uniform Title

• Studies in global social history ; v. 12.
• Studies in global migration history ; v. 1.

Subjects

• Working class > History
• Foreign workers > History
• Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects
• Foreign workers > Cross-cultural studies
• Women foreign workers > History
• Emigration and immigration > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 9789004251366 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004251367 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9789004251380 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2013009562
• 99954453488

OCLC

• ocn833403297
• 833403297
• SCSB-5698198

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries