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.
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 Menjivar 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 Gonzalez-Lopez 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
