ABOUT THIS BOOK

This incisive volume combines two important issues in contemporary debates over migration: gender and illegal migration. The authors reconsider migration scholarship through the lens of gender in order to investigate definitions of citizenship and the differences in mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion for men and women. Additionally, through applying an interdisciplinary and comparative historical framework that spans the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the volume also produces a comprehensive account of illegal migration in nations and regions such as the United States, the Middle East, Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Mexico, Malaysia, Pakistan, and the horn of Africa.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Marlou Schrover is senior lecturer in migration studies, Joanne van der Leun is professor of criminology, Leo Lucassen is professor of social history, and Chris Quispel is a researcher on the history of racism, all at the University of Leiden.

REVIEWS

"This innovative collection of case studies from around the world should inspire much discussion and new research on an important and neglected dimension of international migration." Donna R. Gabaccia, Professor of History and Director, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota

"This volume fills a significant gap in the literature on gender and migration through its analysis, historically and spatially, of the varied aspects of gender and the production of illegality." Eleonore Kofman, Professor of Gender, Migration and Citizenship, Middlesex University

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of contents

1. Marlou Schrover, Joanne van der Leun, Leo Lucassen, and Chris Quispel,
Introduction: illegal migration and gender in a global and historical perspective

2. Corrie van Eijl, Tracing back ‘illegal alliens’ in the Netherlands, 1850-1940

3. Christiane Reinecke, Policing foreign men and women: gendered patterns of

expulsion and migration control in Germany, 1880-1914

4. Ilse van Liempt, The gendered aspects of smuggling. The illegal migration of men

and women from Iraq, the Horn of Africa and the former Soviet Union to the

Netherlands

5. Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas, Old and new labour migration to Malaysia. From

colonial times to the present

6. Ali Nobil Ahmad, The romantic appeal of illegal migration: gender masculinity

and human smuggling from Pakistan

7. Annelies Moors and Marina de Regt, Migrant domestic workers in the Middle East

8. Heide Castañeda, Illegal migration, gender and health care: Perspectives from

Germany and the United States