From a multi-sited ethnography with Swedish migrant women in the United States, Singapore and Spain, the book explores gender vulnerabilities and racial and class privilege in contemporary feminized migration, filling a gap in literature on race and migration.

Autorentext

Catrin Lundström is Associate Professor in Sociology and Future Research Leader at the Department of Studies of Social Change and Culture, Linköping University, Sweden.

Inhalt

1. White Migrations: a Theoretical Framework 2. A Multi-sited Ethnography of Whiteness 3. Doing Similarity in a White-Women's Network 4. Hierarchies of Whiteness in the United States 5. Racial Divisions in Expatriate Lives in Singapore 6. Disintegrating Whiteness in Southern Spain 7. Gender and Whiteness in Motion 8. Migration Studies Revisited