Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective

Chapter 1 Gender and Migration: A Historical and Inclusive Perspective

Chapter 2 Tracing Migrations Within Urban Spaces: Women’s Mobility and Identification Practices in Venice (Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries)

Chapter 3 Filling the Gap, Making a Profession: Midwives, State Control and Medical Care in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Wallachia

Chapter 4 Foreign Nannies and Maids: A Historical Perspective on Female Immigration and Domestic Work in Italy (1960–1970)

Chapter 5 Skills, Training, and Kinship Networks: Women as Economic Migrants in London’s Livery Companies, c. 1600–1800

Chapter 6 Women’s Labour Migration and Serfdom in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

Chapter 7 Staying or Leaving: A Female Seasonal Labour Market in Early Modern Spain (1640–1690)

Chapter 8 Words at Work, Words on the Move: Textual Production of Migrant Women from Early Modern Prague Between Discourses and Practices (1570–1620)

Chapter 9 Migration, Marriage and Integration: Town Court Records and Imprints of Women Artisan Migrants in Sweden c. 1590‒1640

Chapter 10 Migration and the Household Economy of the Poor in Catalonia, c.1762–1803

Chapter 11 French Migrant Women as Educators in Napoleonic Northern Italy (1804–1814)

Chapter 12 Transnational Migration in Wallachia during the 1830s: A Difficult Road from Broader Themes to Micro-History

Chapter 13 Family, Care and Migration: Gendered Paths from the Mediterranean Italian Mountains to Northern Europe in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century

Chapter 14 Migrant Brick- and Tile-Makers from the Island of Kythnos in Athens During the First Half of the Twentieth Century: A Gendered Perspective

Chapter 15 “Women Were Always There…”: Caribbean Immigrant Women, Mutual Aid Societies, and Benevolent Associations in the Early Twentieth Century

Chapter 16 Conclusion: Engendering the History of Migration