Women, migration, and aging in the Americas : analysing dependence and autonomy in old age /: analysing dependence and autonomy in old age. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga.
• Editors: Arrizabalaga, Marie-Pierre
• Contents: Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments 1 Introduction; MARIE-PIERRE ARRIZABALAGA PART I: Women, Households, and Aging 2 French Immigrant Women and Their Aging Experiences in California, 1880–1940; MARIE-PIERRE ARRIZABALAGA 3 Aging French-Canadian Immigrant Women in the U.S. in 1910: North American Comparative Perspectives; DANIELLE GAUVREAU AND MARIE-ÈVE HARTON 4 The Grandmother Exception: The Role of Family Relationships in the History of U.S. Immigration Policy and Practice; SUZANNE M. SINKE PART II: Isolated Women and Aging 5 Open or Closed Horizons? Personal Accounts on the Emigration/Transfer of Basque Nuns to the Americas; ÓSCAR ÁLVAREZ-GILA 6 Women and War: Aging, Migration, and Violence in the Mexico–U.S. Borderlands; VERÓNICA CASTILLO-MUÑOZ PART III: Women and Aging as Transnational Experiences 7 From Providing Care to Requiring Care: The Impact of Migration on the Elderly in Paraguay; NURIA PENA AND MARCELA CERRUTTI 8 The Importance of Integration in the Life Stories of Immigrant Women From Piaxtla, Mexico, Who Live in the United States; EMILIO MACEDA 9 Peule Female Migration to the Americas and Their Return to Guinea in Old Age: Evolution of Gender Relations in the Mamou Region; MAMADOU SOUNOUSSY DIALLO Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 362.839812; Women immigrants -- America -- Social conditions; Older women -- America -- Social conditions; Aging -- Social aspects -- America; America -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000779998; 9781000779967; 9781003267157
• Related ISBNs: 9781032211800
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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