Contents

List of Illustrations

Part One Introduction

Understanding International Migration:Comparative and Transcultural Perspectives

Transcultural Approaches to Gendered Labour Migration: From the Nineteenth-Century Proletarian to Twenty-First-Century Caregiver Mass Migrations

Globalizing the Household in East Asia

Part Two Atlantic World: Europe and the Americas

Domestic Service and Urbanization in Latin America from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

Feminization and Problematization of Migration: Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Migration and Family Systems in Russia and the Soviet Union, Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries

Femina migrans: Agency of European Women Migrating to Domestic Work in North America, 1880s to 1950s

Part Three The Africas and the Eastern Mediterranean

Interdependence and Convergence: Migration, Men, Women, and Work in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1800–1975

Migrations in the Maghreb and Western Mediterranean

“Women Were Strong”: Gender and Migration from the Eastern Mediterranean

Part Four The Asias

Chinese Emigration in Global Context, 1850–1940

Japan, Labour Migration, and the Global Order of Difference

Shifting Geographies of Migration in Southeast Asia: Continuity and Change in Proletarian and Gendered Migrations

Migration into Thailand: Change and Continuity from a Gender Perspective

Part Five Case Studies: Southeast Asian Domestic and Careworker Migrations

Indonesian Domestic Workers Overseas: Their Position and Protection in the Global Labour Market

From Amah-chieh to Indonesian Maids: A Comparative Study in the Context of Malaysia, circa 1930s–1990s

Women Migrant Workers and Visibility in Malaysia: The Role of Media in Society

Part Six Adjusting Family Life/Globalizing Carework and Householding

Rethinking the “Left-Behind” in Chinese Migrations: A Case of Liberating Wives in 1950s South China

Marriage Migration: Love in Brokered Marriages in Contemporary Japan

Migration and Transformation: The Gendering of International Migration from the Philippines in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index