EAN: 9783039101566

MIGRATION GENDER AND NATIONAL IDENTITY - ANA BR...

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.

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