Table of contents
1. Introduction: gender and the experience of migration Pamela Sharp;
2. Women migrants as global and local agents: new research strategies on gender and migration Christiane Harzig;
3. Leaving home to help the family? Male and female temporary migrants in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Spain Carmen Saras;
4. Labour migration, family and community in early modern Japan Mary Louise Nagata;
5. Women and long distance trade migration in the nineteenth-century Netherlands Marlou Schrover;
6. Nowhere at home? Female migrants in the nineteenth-century Habsburg monarchy Sylvia Hahn;
7. Gender, family, work and migration in early nineteenth-century Scotland David Tidswell;
8. Wives or workers? Single British female migration to colonial Australia Jan Gothard;
9. A historical perspective on female migrants: motivations and strategies of nineteenth-century hessians Simone Wegge;
10. When the migrants are men; Italy's women and transnationalism as a working-class way of life Donna Gabaccia;
11. Gender and twentieth-century Irish migration 1921-71 Enda Delaney;
12. Maids on the move: images of femininity and European women's labour migration during the inter-war years Barbara Henkes;
13. Female migration and the farm family economy in inter-war Japan Janet Hunter;
14. Migrancy, marriage and family in the Ciskei reserve of South Africa 1945-1959 Anne Mager;
15. Women and migrants: continuity and change in patterns of female migration in Latin America Paulina de los Reyes