Gender and ethnicity in contemporary Europe / edited by Jacqueline Andall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andall, Jacqueline.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minority women--Europe.

Minority women.

Women immigrants--Europe.

Women immigrants.

Ethnicity--Europe.

Ethnicity.

Women.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Europe.

Women--Europe--Identity.

Physical Description:

xii, 238 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Berg, 2003.

Summary:

Contemporary Europe is in the midst of a cultural and social crisis. Debates over how European societies should respond to their changing ethnic profile lie at the heart of this crisis, whilst the issues raised have been given sharper focus by nationalist political parties espousing an anti-immigration agenda. This book examines the relationship between gender and ethnicity in Europe, viewed from within an immigration framework. To date, much of the research on Europe has treated gender and ethnicity in isolation. The contributors to this collection rectify this. They make the links between these two areas, thus giving ethnic minority women greater visibility within the European context. They consider the relationship between gender and ethnicity from a number of thematic perspectives including the feminization of migration, political mobilization by ethnic minority women, women and Islam and the formation of identity. The case studies examine Islamic cultures in Italy, Turkish identity in Germany, the political experience of South Asian women in the UK, migrant women in Spain, challenges to the social reputation of Muslim women in the Netherlands, evolving perceptions in Post-Communist Russia and political activism in France. The book also considers white women's identity and questions whether or not a service caste, drawn from contemporary migrant women, is emerging in today's Europe. Throughout, we learn about the new and different forms of 'Europeanness' that these women are forging.

Contents:

Introduction: The space between; gender politics and immigration politics in Europe / Jacqueline Andall

Pt. 1. Gender, ethnicity and migration. Gendered actors in migration / Annie Phizacklea ; Hierarchy and interdependence: the emergence of a service caste in Europe / Jacqueline Andall ; Migrant women in Spain: class, gender and ethnicity / Carlota Solé and Sònia Parella

Pt. 2. Gender, ethnicity and political mobilization. South Asian women and collective action in Britain / Ravi K. Thiara ; Women migrants and political activism in France / Cathie Lloyd

Pt. 3. Gender, ethnicity and Islam. Shifting meanings of Islam and multiple representations of modernity: the case of Muslim women in Italy / Ruba Salih ; 'Nowadays your husband is your partner': ethnicity and emancipation as self-presentation in the Netherlands / Joke van der Zwaard ; Gendered and racialized experiences of citizenship in the life stories of women of Turkish background in Germany / Umut Erel

Pt. 4. Gender, ethnicity and identity. Mother Russia: changing attitudes to ethnicity and national identity in Russia's regions / Anne White ; Westenders: whiteness, women and sexuality in Southall, UK / Raminder Kaur.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1859736475

1859736521

OCLC:

50802661