JSTOR

Gender, Migration and Categorisation

Year

2013

Publisher

Amsterdam University Press

Type

BOOK

Category

Social Science

Language

English

Pages

273

ISBN

978-9-04852-175-3

Link

Last Update

09-Sep-2024

Keywords

SOCIAL SCIENCE / General;SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General

Description

All people are equal, according to Thomas Jefferson, but all migrants are not. This volume looks at how they are distinguished in France, the United States, Turkey, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark made through history between migrants and how these were justified in policies and public debates. The chapters form a triptych, addressing in three clusters the problematization of questions such as 'who is a refugee', 'who is family' and 'what is difference'. The chapters in this volume show that these are not separate issues. They intersect in ways that vary according to countries of origin and settlement, economic climate, geopolitical situation, as well as by gender, and by class, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation of the migrants.

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