The book is divided into four parts on: migration, political mobilization, Islam and identity. It contains the chapters: Gendered actors in migration: Hierarchy and interdependence: the emergence of a service caste in Europe: Migrant women in Spain: class, gender and ethnicity: South Asian women and collective action in Britain: Women migrants and political activism in France: Shifting meanings of Islam and multiple representations of modernity: the case of Muslim women in Italy: 'Nowadays your husband is your partner': ethnicity and emancipation as self-presentation in the Netherlands: Gendered and racialized experiences of citizenship in the life stories of women of Turkish background in Germany: Mother Russia: changing attitudes to ethnicity and national identity in Russia's regions: Westenders: whiteness, women and sexuality in Southall, United Kingdom.