Research Catalog

Title

White migrations : gender, whiteness and privilege in transnational migration / Catrin Lundström.

Author

Lundström, Catrin

Publication

Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Description

viii, 202 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Explores the intersections of racial and class privilege and gender vulnerabilities in migration from or with 'the west' through Swedish migrant women in the US, Singapore, and Spain. Examines how whiteness migrates through different national settings.

Series Statement

Migration, diasporas and citizenship

Uniform Title

Migration, diasporas and citizenship

Subject

• Women immigrants
• Immigrants > Social conditions
• White people > Race identity
• Developed countries > Emigration and immigration
• Emigration and immigration > Sex differences
• Transnationalism > Social aspects
• Women immigrants > Social conditions
• Women, White > Race identity
• Invandrare
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies
• Sociala förhållanden
• Svenska kvinnor
• Vita

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-196) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

White migrations : a theoretical outline -- A multi-sited ethnography of whiteness -- Doing similarity in a white-women's network -- Hierarchies of whiteness in the United States -- Racial divisions in expatriate lives in Singapore -- Disintegrating whiteness in southern Spain -- Gender and whiteness in motion -- Migration studies revisited.

ISBN

• 9781137289186
• 113728918X

OCLC

• 870285662
• SCSB-10575763

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library