"In this interdisciplinary study, Linda Reeder examines how the lives of rural Sicilian women changed as a result of male migration to the United States."--Jacket.
In this study the author examines how the lives of rural Sicilian women changed as a result of male migration to the United States. By using a wide variety of sources the impact of industrialization on motherhood, family, wage work, and female civic identity is explored and also…
"In this interdisciplinary study, Linda Reeder examines how the lives of rural Sicilian women changed as a result of male migration to the United States."--Jacket.
"In this interdisciplinary study, Linda Reeder examines how the lives of rural Sicilian women changed as a result of male migration to the United States."--Jacket
The local dimension of migration policymaking
by Borkert, Maren, Caponio, Tiziana
fromIMISCOE reports
This book prompts a fresh look on immigrant integration policy. Revealing just where immigrants and their receiving societies interact everyday, it shows how societal inclusion is administered and produced at a local level. The studies presented focus on three issue areas of mig…
Over the last four decades the sociological life course approach with its focus on the interplay of structure and agency over time life course perspective has become an important research perspective in the social sciences. Yet, while it has successfully been applied to almost a…
"Settler societies are those in which European migrants have become politically dominant over indigenous peoples and a heterogeneous social structure has developed. They offer a unique prism for understanding the complex relations of gender, race, ethnicity and class in contempo…
Based on Hadhrami and British sources, as well as on fieldwork in Yemen and Indonesia, this text traces the ways in which members of the diaspora and travellers interacted with the homeland through their remittances, political initiatives and the introduction of new ideas and in…
This collection examines the economic, social, and cultural effects that immigrants have had on their home countries, including China, Cuba, India, Mexico, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Turkey.