Proletarian and gendered mass migrations : a global perspective on continuities and discontinuities from the 19th to the 21st centuries

List of Maps, Tables and Figures 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 Hassene 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