New perspectives on gender and migration : livelihood, rights and entitlements / edited by Nicola Piper

International migration and gendered axes of stratification / Nicola Piper -- Finding a place in stratified structures : migrant women in North America / Monica Boyd and Deanna Pikkov -- Gendered migrations, livelihoods, and entitlements in European welfare regimes / Eleonore Kofman -- Gendered migration in Oceania : trends, policies, and outcomes / Siew-Ean Khoo, Elsie Ho and Carmen Voigt-Graf -- Gender, migration and livelihoods : migrant women in Southern Africa / Belinda Dodson -- Feminised migration in East and Southeast Asia and the securing of livelihoods / Nicola Piper and Keiko Yamanaka -- Gendered migrations in the Americas : Mexico as country of origin, destination, and transit / Martha Luz Rojas Wiesner and Hugo Angeles Cruz -- Political participation and empowerment of foreign workers : gendered advocacy and migrant labour organising in Southeast and East Asia / Nicola Piper -- Using human rights law to empower migrant domestic workers in the inter-American system / Margaret L. Satterthwaite.

xiii, 347 p. : graphs, tables

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780415956499 (hbk.)