This edited collection focuses on migrant women and their families, aiming to study their migration patterns in a historical and gendered perspective from early modernity to contemporary times, and to reassess the role and the nature of their commitment in migration dynamics. It develops an incisive dialogue between migration studies and gender studies. Migrant women, men and their families are studied through three different but interconnected and overlapping standpoints that have been identified as crucial for a gender approach: institutions and law, labour and the household economy, and social networks. The book also promotes the potential of an inclusive approach, tackling various types of migration (domestic and temporary movements, long-distance and international migration, temporary/seasonal mobility) and arguing that different migration phenomena can be observed and understood by posing common questions to different contexts. Migration patterns are shown to be multifaceted and stratified phenomena, resulting from a range of entangled economic, cultural and social factors. This book will be of interest to academics and students of economic history, as well as those working in gender studies and migration studies.
Author(s): Beatrice Zucca Micheletto
Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 545
City: Cham
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Gender and Migration: A Historical and Inclusive Perspective
Migration and Gender: Achievements and New Perspectives
Migration in Historical Perspective: What Place for Women and Gender?
Short- and Long-Distance Migration, International and Domestic Migration: An Inclusive Approach
Describing and Accounting for Female Migrants: The Problem of the Sources
Institutions, Law and Identity
New Perspectives on Labour
Family and Community Ties: Wellbeing and Mutual Aid
Notes
References
Part I Institutions, Law and Identity
2 Tracing Migrations Within Urban Spaces: Women’s Mobility and Identification Practices in Venice (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries)
Introduction: From Identity to Identification
Registration of Foreigners and Women’s Mobility
The Legislation
The Un-Registration of Women
Between Migration and Inter-Urban Mobility: The Itinerary of Caia Alias Zuanna Alias Aisè
A Christian Woman in the Fondaco of the Turks
Casa dei Catecumeni: Defining Religious Affiliation
Holy Office: The Physical Description as a Proof of Identity
Between Written Documents and Oral Testimonies: The Registration of Greek Orthodox Women
Identification and Urban Resources
Intermediaries of Identification
Personal vs Collective Gift
Notes
References
3 Filling the Gap, Making a Profession: Midwives, State Control and Medical Care in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Wallachia
Premises of Mobility: Geographical Context, Knowledge Context
Sources and Methodology
The Midwives in Medical Discourse
Craft, Knowledge, and Social Status
From One Empire to Another
In Wallachian Cities: The Graduates of the Bucharest Midwifery School
From Cities to Countryside
Conclusions
Notes
Archives
4 Foreign Nannies and Maids: A Historical Perspective on Female Immigration and Domestic Work in Italy (1960–1970)
A New Periodization
Female Migration and Domestic Work: A Long-Lasting Relationship
Bitter Work: Female Foreigners in Italy
Amnesty and Illegality
‘Somali or Eritrean Domestic Helpers’: Visibility, Invisibility, Otherness
Subalternity and Rights Between Public and Private
Notes
References
Part II Labour and Household Economy
5 Skills, Training, and Kinship Networks: Women as Economic Migrants in London’s Livery Companies, c. 1600–1800
Women’s Economic Migration in Early Modern England—A Review of the Literature
The Geographic Origins of Female Livery Company Apprentices in London
Kinship Ties and Forging Socio-Economic Networks Through London Apprenticeships
Conclusion
Notes
References
6 Women’s Labour Migration and Serfdom in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
Literature
Sources
Mobility, Migrations and Serfdom
Quantifying Migrant Women in the Cracow Micro-Region
The Labour Market
Social Networks
Notes
Archival Sources
7 Staying or Leaving: A Female Seasonal Labour Market in Early Modern Spain (1640–1690)
The Case Study: Large Farms, Agricultural Specialization and Female Seasonal Migrations in Majorca
Unusual Sources and Methodological Approach
The Recruitment of Female Labour for the Olive Harvest: Labour Market and Seasonal Migration
Near and Far: The Geography of the Recruitment of Olive Pickers.
Inequalities in Land Distribution and Agricultural Systems
Networks, Local Power and Circulation of Knowledge
Concluding Remarks
Notes
References
8 Words at Work, Words on the Move: Textual Production of Migrant Women from Early Modern Prague Between Discourses and Practices (1570–1620)
Rebecca bat Meir Tiktiner—Teacher and Preacher
Elisabeth Jane Weston—Virgo Angla, Poetria Celeberrima
Elisabeth of Kameneck—‘Rectorin und Doctorinʼ
Conclusion
References
9 Migration, Marriage and Integration: Town Court Records and Imprints of Women Artisan Migrants in Sweden c. 1590‒1640
Main Trends in Previous Scholarship
Urban Court Records and Migration History
The Downfall of a Cooper’s Wife
The Migrant Life of Margreta Larsdotter
Migration, Marriage and Extramarital Affairs
Conclusion: Migration, Profession and Gender
Notes
References
10 Migration and the Household Economy of the Poor in Catalonia, c.1762–1803
Patterns of Migration
Migration and the Household Economy in Catalonia
Seasonal Migration: The Enquiry of Francisco De Zamora
Long-Term Migration Flows: The Evidence of the Barcelona Workhouse
Conclusion
Notes
References
11 French Migrant Women as Educators in Napoleonic Northern Italy (1804–1814)
Girls’ Schools in Milan: A Few Patterns
The Importance of Social Networks
Family Migration and Family Business
Respectability and Morality: The Impact of Gender in the Migration of Thérèse Langers
Conclusion
Notes
References
12 Transnational Migration in Wallachia during the 1830s: A Difficult Road from Broader Themes to Micro-History
Objectives
Historical Context and Sources
Source Quality, Concepts, and Methodology
Wallachia: Women Crossing the Northern Border
Conclusions
Appendix
Notes
References
Part III Social Networks: Kinship and Community Ties
13 Family, Care and Migration: Gendered Paths from the Mediterranean Italian Mountains to Northern Europe in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
What Sources to Look for Transnational Care in the Past?
Views from the Homeland
Conclusions
Notes
Archival Sources
14 Migrant Brick- and Tile-Makers from the Island of Kythnos in Athens During the First Half of the Twentieth Century: A Gendered Perspective
The Historical Framework
Gender Role in the Creation of Professional and Social Networks Away from the Home-Country
Labour Division and Transfer of Knowledge
Decision-Making Process and Dowry
Management: Reinforcing Relations and Paternalism
Permanent Settlement and the Creation of a Network of Kythnians
Integration Process and Social Networks
Conclusion
Notes
References
15 “Women Were Always There…”: Caribbean Immigrant Women, Mutual Aid Societies, and Benevolent Associations in the Early Twentieth Century
Historiography
Sources
Caribbean New York
Settling In
Employment: Domestic Labor
Mutual Aid Societies and Benevolent Associations
Functions
Leadership Training Grounds
Formal and Informal Networks
Conclusion
Notes
References
16 Conclusion: Engendering the History of Migration
References
Index
