Women and Migration

18.12.2000

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9783593366043

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Anthropological Perspectives

PD Dr. Jacqueline Knörr is Associate Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany. Her areas of research cover identity issues, creolization, integration and conflict, migration, gender, childhood & youth. Her areas of research are West Africa, Indonesia, and Germany.

Frauenforschung, Bevölkerungswanderung, Kulturelle Identität, Geschlecht

Acknowledgements 7 Women and migration: anthropological perspectives 9 Jacqueline Knörr & Barbara Meier Part 1 Transformations of gender relations and female identities in the context ofmigration Mafa women and migration 21 Jos van Santen & Juliette Schaafsma Female identities in a "globalized village": a case study of South Lebanese migration to West Africa 63 Anja Peleikis Female secret societies and their impact on ethnic and trans-ethnic identities among migrant women m Freetown, Sierra Leone 80 Jacqueline Knörr Afro-Caribbean carnival as etbnic empowerment and migrant organization: image building and women's changing role in contemporary carnival 99 Patricia Tamara Alleyne-Dettmers Religious concepts in the process ofmigration: Puerto Rican female spiritists in the United States 119 Bettina E. Schmidt Part II Female networks and decision-making strategies in migrant settings Ethnic networks in women's migration: a comparative study of Jewish and Italian women in New York, 1870-1924 135 Kathie Friedman Kasaba Men's migrant labor and its effects on gender relations in rural Zimbabwe 151 Rita Schäfer "One day, we will retum home": Turkana women migration and remigration 164 Ulrike Schultz Migrant women's associations in Ghana: the case of the female chief and female chain migration 181 Barbara Meier "Pioneers in the Lake": female migrants in the Lake Chad region of northeastern Nigeria Editha Platte African-Swiss women' s social networks 212 Claudia Roth & Chinwe Ifejika Speranza Self-presentation in female migrants' biographies and narratives Ingeborg Philipper First generation Italian female migrants in Germany Sandra Gruner-Domic Strategic narratives: Latin American women as social actors of their biographies Contributors

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