gender, immigration, and the state in modern France, 1880–1945
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Barton, Nimisha
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- FR 1A 2020 - B
- Thesaurus
- immigratie, immigranten, overheidsbeleid, bevolkingspolitiek, historisch, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, statistiek
- Description
- In the familiar tale of mass migration to France from 1880 onward, we know very little about the hundreds of thousands of women who formed a critical part of those migration waves. In this publication, the author argues that their relative absence in the historical record hints at a larger and more problematic oversight-the role of sex and gender in shaping the experiences of migrants to France before the Second World War. This history of social citizenship demonstrates how, through the routine application of social policies, state and social actors worked separately toward a shared goal: repopulating France with immigrant families. Based a.o. on census reports, municipal statistics, naturalization dossiers, court cases, police files, and social worker registers.