Portuguese Women in Toronto: Gender, Immigration, and Nationalism

by Wenona Giles

Overview

Wenona Giles takes a new look at migration in this innovative study of Portuguese women by examining the gender, class, and race relations of the immigrant Portuguese population from the micro level of personal experience to the macro level of the long-lasting societal repercussions of immigrant status and welfare on their children.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442614956
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	12/15/2002
Series:	Heritage
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Wenona Giles is Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Atkinson Faculty at York University.

Editorial Reviews

In the 1980s, Giles (social sciences, York U.) investigated gender relations and political consciousness in rural Portugal in the aftermath of the 1974 socialist revolution, then became interested in the large Portuguese community in her home town. Here she addresses issues of ethnicity and race in her studies of two generations of Portuguese women beginning in the early 1990s. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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