Gender and U.S. Immigration: Contemporary Trends

Contents\nAcknowledgments\nPart One. Introduction\nChapter 1. Gender and Immigration: A Retrospective and Introduction\nChapter 2. Engendering Migration Studies: The Case of New Immigrants in the United States\nChapter 3. Strategic Instantiations of Gendering in the Global Economy\nPart Two. Gender and Employment\nChapter 4. The Global Context of Gendered Labor Migration from the Philippines to the United States\nChapter 5. Gender and Labor in Asian Immigrant Families\nChapter 6. The Intersection of Work and Gender: Central American Immigrant Women and Employment in California\nChapter 7. Israeli and Russian Jews: Gendered Perspectives on Settlement and Return Migration\nPart Three. Engendering Racial and Ethnic Identities\nChapter 8. Gendered Ethnicity: Creating a Hindu Indian Identity in the United States\nChapter 9. Disentangling Race-Gender Work Experiences: Second-Generation Caribbean Young Adults in New York City\nChapter 10. Gendered Geographies of Home: Mapping Second- and Third-Generation Puerto Ricans’ Sense of Home\nPart Four. Gender, Generation, and Immigration\nChapter 11. De madres a hijas: Gendered Lessons on Virginity across Generations of Mexican Immigrant Women\nChapter 12. Raising Children, and Growing Up, across National Borders: Comparative Perspectives on Age, Gender, and Migration\nChapter 13. “We Don’t Sleep Around Like White Girls Do”: Family, Culture, and Gender in Filipina American Lives\nPart Five. Gender, Citizenship, and the Transnational\nChapter 14. Engendering Transnational Migration: A Case Study of Salvadorans\nChapter 15. “I’m Here, but I’m There”: The Meanings of Latina Transnational Motherhood\nChapter 16. Gender, Status, and the State in Transnational Spaces: The Gendering of Political Participation and Mexican Hometown Associations\nChapter 17. “The Blue Passport”: Gender and the Social Process of Naturalization among Dominican Immigrants in New York City\nContributors\nIndex