Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective: Institutions, Labour and Social Networks, 16th to 20th Centuries

Chapter 1. Gender and Migration: an historical and inclusive perspective (Beatrice Zucca Michelletto) -- Part 1: Institutions, law and identity -- Chapter 2. Tracing migration within urban spaces: women’s mobility and identification practices in Venice (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) (Teresa Bernardi) -- Chapter 3. Filling the gap, making a profession. Midwives, state control and medical care in mid-nineteenth century Wallachia (Nicoleta Roman) -- Chapter 4. Foreign nannies and maids. A historical perspective on female immigration and domestic work in Italy (1960-1970) (Alessandra Gissi) -- Part 2: Labour and household economy -- Chapter 5. Skills, training and kinship networks: women as economic migrants in London's livery companies, c. 1600-1800 (Sarah Birt) -- Chapter 6. Women labour migration and serfdom in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) (Mateusz Wyzga) -- Chapter 7. Staying or leaving: a female seasonal labour market in early modern Spain (1640-1690) (Gabriel Jover-Avellà, Joana Maria Pujades-Mora) -- Chapter 8. Words at Work. Words on the Move. Textual Production of Migrant Women from Early Modern Prague Between Discourses and Practice (1570-1620) (Veronika Čapská) -- Chapter 9. Migration, Marriage and Integration: Town Court Records and Imprints of Women Artisan Migrants in Sweden c. 1590‒1640 (Maija Ojala-Fullwood) -- Chapter 10. Migration and the household economy of the poor in Catalonia, c. 1762-1803 (Montserrat Carbonell-Esteller, Julie Marfany, Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora) -- Chapter 11. French migrant women as educators in Napoleonic Northern Italy (1804-1814) (Elisa Baccini) -- Chapter 12. Transnational Migration in Wallachia during the 1830s. A Difficult Road from Broader Themes to Micro-History (Bogdan Mateescu) -- Part 3: Social networks: kinship and community ties -- Chapter 13. Family, care and migration. Gendered paths from the Mediterranean mountains to Northern Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth century (Manuela Martini) -- Chapter 14. Migrant Brick- and Tile-Makers from the Island of Kythnos in Athens during the First Half of the Twentieth Century: A Gendered Perspective (Michalis Bardanis) -- Chapter 15.“Women Were Always There…”: Caribbean Immigrant Women, Mutual Aid Societies, and Benevolent Associations in the Early Twentieth Century (Tyesha Maddox) -- Chapter 16. Conclusion. Towards a multifactorial approach to migration studies (Beatrice Zucca Micheletto).