Chapter One
Gender and Immigration
A Retrospective and Introduction
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
The intent of this volume is both modest and ambitious. High-caliber social science
research has emerged on gender and U.S.-bound immigration in recent years,
and this book simply draws together some of the best new work in the field. The
book includes essays by pioneers who have logged nearly two decades in the field
of gender and immigration, and new empirical work by both young scholars and
well-established social scientists who bring their substantial talents to this topic for
the first time. More ambitiously, this volume seeks to alert scholars and students to
some of the gender consequences emerging from the last three decades of resurgent
U.S. immigration. This immigration is changing life as we know it, in the
United States and elsewhere, in many ways. One important change concerns the
place of women and men in society.
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