BCRW: The Barnard Center for Research on Women

Borders on Belonging: Gender and Immigration

Recommended Reading

Anderson, Bridget. 2001. "Different roots in common ground: transnationalism and migrant domestic workers in London." Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 27:673-683.

Ball, Rochelle. 2002. "Globalisation and regulation of citizenship—Filipino migrant workers in Japan." Political Geography 21:1013-1034.

Basch, L., Schiller, N., Blanc, C. 1994. Nations Unbound: Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments, and Deterritorialized Nation-States. Canada: Gordon and Breach Publishers.

Cantú, Lionel. "A Place Called Home: A Queer Political Economy of Mexican Immigrant Men's Family Experiences." In Queer Families, Queer Politics: Challenging Culture and the State. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.

Calavita, Kitty. "The New Politics of Immigration: 'Balanced-Budget Conservatism' and the Symbolism of Proposition 187." Social Problems 43:3 (Aug, 1986): 284-305.

Chin, Christine B.N. 2003. "Visible Bodies, Invisible Work: State Practices Toward Migrant Women Domestic Workers in Malaysia." Asian and Pacific Migration Journal 12:49-74.

Dannecker, Petra. 2005. "Transnational Migration and the Transformation of Gender Relations: The Case of Bangladeshi Labour Migrants." Current Sociology 53:655-674.

Hill Maher, Kristen. 2004. "Globalized Social Reproduction: Women Migrants and the Citizenship Gap." in People out of Place: Globalization, Human Rights, and the Citizenship Gap, edited by Alison Brysk and Gershon Shafir. NY: Routledge.

Honig, Bonnie. "Immigrant America? How Foreignness 'Solves' Democracy's Problems." Social Text, No. 56 (Autumn, 1998): 1-27.

Luibhéid, Eithne. Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.

Libhéid and Cantú. Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.

Margold, Jane. 1995. "Narratives of Masculinity and Transnational Migration: Filipino Workers in the Middle East." In Bewitching Women, Pious Men, edited by Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz. Berkeley: Univeristy of California Press.

Morawska, Ewa. 2003. "Disciplinary Agendas and Analytic Strategies of Research on Immigrant Transnationalism: Challenges of Interdisciplinary Knowledge." International Migration Review 37:611-640.

Parennas, Rhacel Salazar. 2001. "Transgressing the Nation-State: The Partial Citizenship and 'Imagined (Global) Community' of Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers." Signs 26:1129.

Parrenas, Rhacel S. 2000. "Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers and the International Division of Reproductive Labor." Gender and Society 14:560-580.

Pedraza, Sylvia. 1991. "Women and Migration: The Social Significance of Gender." Annual Review of Sociology 17:303-325.

Piper, Nicola, and Rochelle Ball. 2001. "Globalisation of Asian Migrant Labour: The Philippine-Japan Connection." Journal of Contemporary Asia 31:533-554.

Rodriguez, Robyn. 2002. "Migrant Heroes: Nationalism, Citizenship and the Politics of Filipino Migrant Labor." Citizenship Studies 6:341-356.

Schwenken, Helen. 2005. "'Domestic Slavery' versus 'Workers Rights': Political Mobilizations of Migrant Domestic Workers in the European Union." In Center for Comparative Immigration Studies. San Diego, California.

Stasiulis, Daiva K., and Abigail B. Bakan. 2003. Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canand and the Global System. NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Tadiar, Neferti. 1997. "Domestic Bodies of the Philippines." SOUJOURN 12:153-91.

Trager, Lilian. 1984. "Family Strategies and the Migration of Women: Migrants to Dagupan City, Philippines." International Migration Review 18:1264-1277.

Tyner, James A. 1996. "Constructions of Filipina Migrant Entertainers." Gender, Place and Culture 3:77-94.

Yeoh, Brenda, and Shirlena Huang. 1998. "Negotiating Public Space: Strategies and Styles of Migrant Female Domestic Workers in Singapore." Urban Studies 35:583.

Yeoh, Brenda, Shirlena Huang, and Joaquin Gonzalez. 1999. "Migrant Domestic Female Workers: Debating the Economic, Social and Political Impacts in Singapore." International Migration Review 33:114.