Gendering migration : masculinity, femininity and ethnicity in post-war Britain / edited by Louise Ryan, Wendy Webster.

Other author Ryan, Louise.
Other author Webster, Wendy.
Format Book
Publication InfoAldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.
Descriptionxii, 210 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Women immigrants--Great Britain. --Social conditions. --20th century.
Immigrants--Great Britain. --Social conditions. --20th century.
Great Britain--Emigration and immigration. --20th century.

SeriesStudies in migration and diaspora
Studies in migration and diaspora. ^A691692
Contents "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008019106
ISBN9780754671787 (alk. paper)
ISBN075467178X (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks JV7625 .G46 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold