White Migrations: Gender, Whiteness and Privilege in Transnational Migration

C. Lundström

Palgrave Macmillan UK, May 7, 2014 - Social Science - 212 pages

From a multi-sited ethnography with Swedish migrant women in the United States, Singapore and Spain, the book explores gender vulnerabilities and racial and class privilege in contemporary feminized migration, filling a gap in literature on race and migration.

About the author

Catrin Lundström is Associate Professor in Sociology and Future Research Leader at the Department of Studies of Social Change and Culture, Linköping University, Sweden.

Bibliographic information

• Title: White Migrations: Gender, Whiteness and Privilege in Transnational Migration; Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
• Author: C. Lundström
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014
• ISBN: 113728918X, 9781137289186
• Length: 212 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / General; Political Science / Public Policy / Social Policy; Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; Social Science / Emigration & Immigration; Social Science / Gender Studies; Social Science / Media Studies; Social Science / Minority Studies; Social Science / Sociology / General; Social Science / Women's Studies