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Women and immigration law : new variations on classical feminist themes edited by Sarah van Walsum and Thomas Spijkerboer

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Abingdon : Routledge-Cavendish, 2007.Description: xi, 272 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781904385653 (hbk)
  • 1904385656 (hbk)
  • 9781904385646
  • 1904385648
DDC classification:
  • 342.4082082 22
LOC classification:
  • KJC6050 .W66 2007
Other classification:
  • 86.58
Online resources:
Contents:
Border rights and rites: generalisations, stereotypes and gendered migration Jacqueline Bhabha -- Citizenship, noncitizenship and the status of the foreign domestic Linda Bosniak -- Gendered borders and United States' sovereignty Judith Resnik -- Gendered violence in 'new wars': challenges to the Refugee Convention Nora Markard -- Problematising trafficking for the sex sector: a case of eastern European women in the EU Rutvica Andrijasevic -- Migrant world of services / Laura Maria Agustin -- Gender, migration and class: why are 'live-in' domestic workers not compensated for overtime? Guy Mundlak -- Right of domicile of women with a migrant partner in European immigration law Betty de Hart -- Transnational contingency: the domestic work of migrant women in Austria Bettina Haidinger -- Response and responsibility: domestic violence and marriage migration in the UK Aisha Gill and Kaveri Sharma -- French immigration laws: the sans-papieres' perspective Catherine Raissiguier -- Crossing borders: gender, citizenship and reproductive autonomy in Ireland Siobhan Mullally -- Socio-political and legal representations of migrant women sex labourers in Italy: between discourse and praxis Isabel Crowhurst.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Border rights and rites: generalisations, stereotypes and gendered migration Jacqueline Bhabha -- Citizenship, noncitizenship and the status of the foreign domestic Linda Bosniak -- Gendered borders and United States' sovereignty Judith Resnik -- Gendered violence in 'new wars': challenges to the Refugee Convention Nora Markard -- Problematising trafficking for the sex sector: a case of eastern European women in the EU Rutvica Andrijasevic -- Migrant world of services / Laura Maria Agustin -- Gender, migration and class: why are 'live-in' domestic workers not compensated for overtime? Guy Mundlak -- Right of domicile of women with a migrant partner in European immigration law Betty de Hart -- Transnational contingency: the domestic work of migrant women in Austria Bettina Haidinger -- Response and responsibility: domestic violence and marriage migration in the UK Aisha Gill and Kaveri Sharma -- French immigration laws: the sans-papieres' perspective Catherine Raissiguier -- Crossing borders: gender, citizenship and reproductive autonomy in Ireland Siobhan Mullally -- Socio-political and legal representations of migrant women sex labourers in Italy: between discourse and praxis Isabel Crowhurst.