Gendering Migration

Louise Ryan is Deputy Head of the Social Policy Research Centre and Senior Research Fellow at Middlesex University, UK. Wendy Webster is Professor of Contemporary British History at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.

'Based on a series of fascinating case studies, this book makes a major contribution to the mainstreaming of gender - both male and female - into the study of migration, race and ethnicity. Focusing on both well-known and lesser-known migrant groups who have arrived in Britain since the war, the volume enriches our understanding of the gendered texture of Britain's so-called multicultural society.' Russell King, University of Sussex, UK 'This survey makes a case for the significance of studying trends related to gender and ethnicity within studies of migration. The collection of essays therein examine the history of migration in post World War Two Britain and, in so doing, draw on a range of sources, from archival research to interviews with migrants. In sum, the essays explore how the intersection of gender and ethnicity affects both the ways in which recent migrants to Britain have been represented as well as how migrants themselves construe their varied identities and experiences.' Ethnicity and Race in Changing World: A Review Journal

• Contents: Preface; Introduction, Louise Ryan and Wendy Webster; 'The black peril': race, masculinity and migration during the First World War, Richard Smith; Britain and the refugees of Europe, 1939-50, Wendy Webster; Bilateral relations: British soldiers and German women, Inge Weber-Newth; Male and female Polishness in post-war Leicester: gender and its intersections in a refugee community, Kathy Burrell; Gender, race and the ideal labour force, Dolly Smith Wilson; Notions of 'home' and belonging among Greeks in the UK, Venetia Evergeti; Becoming nurses: Irish women, migration and identity through the life course, Louise Ryan; Spaniards in the UK - a successful female post-industrial migration, Tony Morgan; Gender and generation in Pakistani migration: a critical study of masculinity, Ali Nobil Ahmad; 'No job for a grown man': transformations in labour and masculinity among Kurdish migrants in London, Sarah J. Keeler; Masculinity and migration: life stories of East African Asian men, Joanna Herbert; Index.