Women, Migration, and Aging in the Americas - Analyzing Dependence and Autonomy in Old Age

Women, Migration, and Aging in the Americas analyzes how immigrant women have coped with life after they settled in the Americas, from the 19th-21st centuries.

List of contents

1. Introduction Part I. Women, Households, and Aging 2. French Immigrant Women and their Aging Experiences in California, 1880-1940 3. Aging French-Canadian Immigrant Women in the U.S. in 1910: North American Comparative Perspectives 4. The Grandmother Exception: The Role of Family Relationships in the History of U.S. Immigration Policy and Practice Part II. Isolated Women and Aging 5. Open or Closed Horizons? Personal Accounts on the Emigration/Transfer of Basque Nuns to the Americas 6. Women and War: Aging, Migration, and Violence in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands Part III. Women and Aging as Transnational Experiences 7. From Providing Care to Requiring Care: The Impact of Migration on the Elderly in Paraguay 8. The Importance of Integration in the Life Stories of Immigrant Women from Piaxtla, Mexico, Who Live in the United States 9. Peule Female Migration to the Americas and their Return to Guinea in Old Age: Evolution of Gender Relations in the Mamou Region

About the author

Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga is Professor of American Studies at the Institute of International Studies and Modern Languages of CY Cergy Paris Université, France, and member of AGORA research group.

Summary

Women, Migration, and Aging in the Americas analyzes how immigrant women have coped with life after they settled in the Americas, from the 19th–21st centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Marie-Pierre (Cy Cergy Paris Univers Arrizabalaga
• Assisted by: Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga (Editor), Arrizabalaga Marie-Pierre (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9781032211817
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3221181-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Gender in a Global/Local World
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social welfare & social services, Social welfare and social services