Proletarian and Gendered Mass Migrations 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.
Contributors include Rochelle Ball, Shelly Chan, Dennis D. Cordell, Michael Douglass, Christiane Harzig, Dirk Hoerder, Muhamad Nadratuzzaman Hosen, Hassène Kassar, Kamel Kateb, Amarjit Kaur, Kiranjit Kaur, Gijs Kessler, Akram Khater, Elizabeth A. Kuznesof, Vera Mackie, Adam McKeown, Tomoko Nakamatsu, Ooi Keat Gin, Aswatini Raharto, Marlou Schrover, and Patcharawalai Wongboonsin.
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INTRODUCTION
Understanding International Migration: Comparative and Transcultural Perspectives, Amarjit Kaur and Dirk Hoerder
Transcultural Approaches to Gendered Labor Migration: From the Nineteenth-Century Proletarian to Twenty-First-Century Caregiver Migrations, Dirk Hoerder
Globalizing the Household in East Asia, Mike Douglass
ATLANTIC WORLD: EUROPE AND THE AMERICAS
Domestic Service and Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, Elizabeth A. Kuznesof
Feminisation of Migration and Problematisation of Migration: Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth century, Marlou Schrover
Migration and Family Systems in Russia and the Soviet Union, Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries, Gijs Kessler
Femina migrans: Agency of European Women Migrating to Domestic Work in North America, 1880s to 1950s, Christiane Harzig and Dirk Hoerder
THE AFRICAS AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Interdependence to Convergence: Migration, Men, and Work in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1800–1975, Dennis D. Cordell
Migrations in the Maghreb and Western Mediterranean, Kamel Kateb and Hassène Kassar
“Women Were Strong”: Gender and Immigration from the Eastern Mediterranean, Akram Khater
THE ASIAS
Chinese Emigration in Global Context, 1850–1940, Adam McKeown
Japan, Labour Migration, and the Global Order of Difference, Vera Mackie
Shifting Geographies of Migration in Southeast Asia: Continuity and Change in Proletarian and Gendered Migrations, Amarjit Kaur
Migration into Thailand: Change and Continuity from a Gender Perspective, Patcharawalai Wongboonsin
CASE STUDIES: SOUTHEAST ASIAN DOMESTIC AND CARE-WORKER MIGRATIONS
Indonesian Domestic Workers Overseas: Their Position and Protection in the Global Labour Market, Muhamad Nadratuzzaman Hosen and Aswatini Raharto
From Amah-chieh to Indonesian Maids: A Comparative Study in the Context of Malaysia circa 1930s–1990s, Ooi Keat Gin
Women Migrant Workers and Visibility in Malaysia: The Role of Media in Society, Kiranjit Kaur
ADJUSTING FAMILY LIFE / GLOBALIZING CAREWORK AND HOUSEHOLDING
Rethinking the “Left-Behind” in Chinese Migrations: A Case of Liberating Wives in 1950s South China, Shelly Chan
Marriage Migration: Love in Brokered Marriages in Contemporary Japan, Tomoko Nakamatsu
Migration and Transformation: The Gendering of International Migration from the Philippines in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries, Rochelle Ball
Notes on Contributors
Index