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THE MATURING OF SCHOLARSHIP
ON WOMEN AND MIGRATION
Asian/Pacific Islander American Women: A Historical Anthology.
Edited by Shirley Hune and Gail M. Nomura. New York: New York
University Press, 2003. xi + 426 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $65.00
(cloth); $24.00 (paper).
Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy.
Edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild. New
York: Metropolitan Books, 2004. vi + 328 pp. Maps, appendix, notes, and
bibliography. $26.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper).
Sisters or Strangers: Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in
Canadian History. Edited by Marlene Epp, Franca Iacovetta, and
Frances Swyripa. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. xi + 422
pp. Illustrations, tables, and notes. $65.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).
Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship
and Labor. By Evelyn Nakano Glenn. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 2002. x + 306 pp. Notes and index. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
Suzanne M. Sinke
Florida State University
Scholarship on migrant women
and their descendants has been growing rapidly since the pioneering collections
such as Looking into My Sister's Eyes (Toronto, Ontario, 1986), The Forbidden
Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology (Corvallis, OR, 1989), Making
Waves: An Anthology of Writings By and About Asian American Women (Boston,
1989), International Migration: The Female Experience (Totowa, NJ, 1986),
and Seeking Common Ground: Multidisciplinary Studies of Immigrant Women
in the United States (Westport, CT, 1992), to name just five that appear
in the notes of recent scholarship. The three collections and one monograph
under review here illustrate the maturing of scholarship on women and
migration. In some cases it is literally maturing as scholars heading
into retirement produce synthetic work and lay down scholarly challenges;
in other cases it is the next generation of scholars—students of
the earlier group in some cases—who pick up the themes of past scholarship
and pioneering new ones. Collectively, these works demonstrate a number
of important trends.
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