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Title Gendering migration : masculinity, femininity and ethnicity in post-war Britain / edited by Louise Ryan, Wendy Webster
Published Aldershot : Ashgate, [2008]
©2008
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 210 pages)
Series Studies in migration and diaspora
Studies in migration and diaspora.
Contents "The black peril" : race, masculinity and migration during the First World War / Richard Smith -- Britain and the refugees of Europe, 1939-50 / Wendy Webster -- Bilateral relations : British soldiers and German women / Inge Weber-Newth -- Male and female Polishness in post-war Leicester : gender and its intersections in a refugee community / Kathy Burrell -- Gender, race and the ideal labour force / Dolly Smith Wilson -- Notions of "home" and belonging in Greek and Greek Cypriot communities in the UK / Venetia Evergeti -- Becoming nurses : Irish women, migration and identity through the life course / Louise Ryan -- Spaniards in the United Kingdom : a successful female post-industrial migration / Tony Morgan -- Gender and generation in Pakistani migration : a critical study of masculinity / Ali Nobil Ahmad -- No job for a grown man : transformations in labour and masculinity among Kurdish migrants in London / Sarah J. Keeler -- Masculinity and migration : life stories of East African Asian men / Joanna Herbert
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Immigrants -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Women immigrants -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- 20th century
Form Electronic book
Author Ryan, Louise.
Webster, Wendy.
ISBN 075467178X
1351934341
9780754671787
9781351934343