Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo 
Gender and U.S. Immigration [PDF ebook] 
Contemporary Trends

Resurgent immigration is one of the most powerful forces disrupting and realigning everyday life in the United States and elsewhere, and gender is one of the fundamental social categories anchoring and shaping immigration patterns. Yet the intersection of gender and immigration has received little attention in contemporary social science literature and immigration research. This book brings together some of the best work in this area, including essays by pioneers who have logged nearly two decades in the field of gender and immigration, and new empirical work by both young scholars and well-established social scientists bringing their substantial talents to this topic for the first time.

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Acknowledgments


PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

1. Gender and Immigration: A Retrospective and Introduction Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

2. Engendering Migration Studies: The Case of New Immigrants in the United States

Patricia R. Pessar

3. Strategic Instantiations of Gendering in the Global Economy

Saskia Sassen


PART TWO: GENDER AND EMPLOYMENT

4. The Global Context of Gendered Labor Migration From the Philippines to the United States

James A. Tyner

5. Gender and Labor in Asian Immigrant Families

Yen Le Espiritu

6. The Intersection of Work and Gender: Central American Immigrant Women and Employment in California

Cecilia Menjívar

7. Israeli and Russian Jews: Gendered Perspectives on Settlement and Return Migration

Steven J. Gold


PART THREE: ENGENDERING RACIAL AND ETHNIC IDENTITIES

8. Gendered Ethnicity: Creating a Hindu Indian Identity in the United States

Prema Kurien

9. Disentangling Race-Gender Work Experiences: Second-Generation Caribbean Young Adults in New York City

Nancy Lopez

10. Gendered Geographies of Home: Mapping Second- and Third-Generation Puerto Ricans’ Sense of Home

Maura I. Toro-Morn and Marixsa Alicea


PART FOUR: GENDER, GENERATION, AND IMMIGRATION

11. De madres a hijas: Gendered Lessons on Virginity Across Generations of Mexican Immigrant Women

Gloria González-López

12. Raising Children, and Growing Up, Across National Borders: Comparative Perspectives on Age, Gender, and Migration

Barrie Thorne, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, Wan Shun Eva Lam, and Anna Chee

13. ‘We Don’t Sleep Around Like White Girls Do’: Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives.

Yen Le Espiritu


PART FIVE: GENDER, CITIZENSHIP, AND THE TRANSNATIONAL

14. Engendering Transnational Migration: A Case Study of Salvadorans

Sarah J. Mahler

15. ‘I’m Here, but I’m There’: The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo and Ernestine Avila

16. Gender Status and the State in Transnational Spaces: The Gendering of Political Participation and Mexican Hometown Associations

Luin Goldring

17. ‘The Blue Passport’: Gender and the Social Process of Naturalization Among Dominican Immigrants in New York City

Audrey Singer and Greta Gilbertson


Contributors

Index

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Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Gendered Transitions: Mexican Experiences of Immigration (California, 1994) and Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence (California, 2001).