Migration, Gender and National Identity: Spanish Migrant Women in London - Couverture souple

Bravo- Moreno, Ana

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3039101560 ISBN 13 : 9783039101566

Editeur : Verlag Peter Lang, 2005

Synopsis

This book examines the effects of international migration on the shaping of national and gender identities of Spanish women who migrated to the UK between the 1940s and the 1990s from different socio-economic, educational backgrounds and generations. It explores the dynamics between the power of social institutions and women's agency in shaping their identities in two different countries : Spain and the UK. In looking at individuals' formation of identities, the complexity of the social sites of different social classes, educational attainments and generations, is illuminated. This study looks at how gender and nation are appropriated in women's accounts and how representations of gender and nation relate to other significant social phenomena. Differences in empirical realities are mirrored in respondents' accounts. In examining their lives, this study shows the tension between the power of institutions, which were created under particular historical, economic and social conditions, and women's appropriation of institutional discourses in their identities. This book argues throughout that while it is important not to ignore the power of political and economic forces and history as contributors to women's formation of identities, it is at least as important to think of identity as an individual appropriation and creation of individual meanings.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Author : Ana Bravo-Moreno was born in Brussels, migrated to Madrid at the age of seven and to London in her early twenties. Her background is in philosophy (BA Hons, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid), social anthropology (MSc University College London), women's studies and social anthropology (Ph.D. Institute of Education, London). She has worked at the Open University and City University in London and has been a Research Fellow at the Institute of Migration Studies in Madrid. At present she is a Research Lecturer at the University of Granada.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verlag Peter Lang
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3039101560
• ISBN 13: 9783039101566
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 302
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