Gendering migration : masculinity, femininity and ethnicity in post-war Britain / edited by Louise Ryan and Wendy Webster - Aldershot : Ashgate, 2008 - xii, 210 p. ; 24 cm. - Studies in Migration and Diaspora .

Includes bibliographical references and index

'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 in Greek and Greek Cypriot communities in the UK / Venetia Evergeti -- Becoming nurses : Irish women, migration and identity through the life course / Louise Ryan -- Spaniards in the United Kingdom : 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

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Women immigrants--Social conditions--Great Britain--20th century
Immigrants--Social conditions--Great Britain--20th century


Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--20th century