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Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective

Institutions, Labour and Social Networks, 16th to 20th Centuries

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  • Explores migration in a historical and gender perspective.
  • Develops an incisive dialogue between migration studies and gender studies, focusing on migrant women and men.
  • Takes into account the specificities of their migration and settlement patterns.

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

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About this book

This edited collection focuses on migrant women and their families, aiming to study their migration patterns in a historical and gendered perspective from early modernity to contemporary times, and to reassess the role and the nature of their commitment in migration dynamics. It develops an incisive dialogue between migration studies and gender studies. Migrant women, men and their families are studied through three different but interconnected and overlapping standpoints that have been identified as crucial for a gender approach: institutions and law, labour and the household economy, and social networks. The book also promotes the potential of an inclusive approach, tackling various types of migration (domestic and temporary movements, long-distance and international migration, temporary/seasonal mobility) and arguing that different migration phenomena can be observed and understood by posing common questions to different contexts. Migration patterns are shown to be multifaceted and stratified phenomena, resulting from a range of entangled economic, cultural and social factors. This book will be of interest to academics and students of economic history, as well as those working in gender studies and migration studies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Geografiche e dell’Antichità, DiSSGeA, University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Beatrice Zucca Micheletto

About the editor

Beatrice Zucca Micheletto is a researcher at DISSGeA, University of Padua (Italy). She is research affiliate at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (Campop), University of Cambridge, UK, where she has been Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (2017-2019). She is research affiliate at the Groupe de Recherche d’Histoire (GRHis) University of Rouen-Normandy (France). Her research focuses on women and gender history, history of the family, history of labour and apprenticeship, history of migration and mobility, history of charity institutions, citizenship in early modern Italy and France.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective

  • Book Subtitle: Institutions, Labour and Social Networks, 16th to 20th Centuries

  • Editors: Beatrice Zucca Micheletto

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99554-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99553-9Published: 02 September 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99556-0Published: 03 September 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99554-6Published: 01 September 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2662-6497

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 534

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Economic History, Migration, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Labor Economics

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