Transnational Ruptures
Gender and Forced Migration
Gender in a Global/Local World Series

A key development in international migration in recent years has been the increasing feminization of migrant populations. Research attention now focuses not only on the growing number of women on the move but also on their changing gender roles as more female migrants participate as principal wage earners and heads of household rather than as 'dependants'. The tensions between population displacement within and beyond Guatemala and the multiple local, regional and national realities encountered and reconfigured by these refugee and migrants allow a fascinating window onto the connections and ruptures experienced in a 'global/local world'. Transnational Ruptures holds great interest and value for a wide readership, from scholars who are interested in transnational and refugee studies and international migration, to upper level university students in disciplines such as human geography, anthropology, sociology, Latin American Studies, gender studies, political science and international studies.

Contents: Community Ruptures and Transnational Migration: Rupture and renewal: Guatemala-Canada connections; Gender, community, and transnationalism. Guatemala to Canada: State violence, immigration Policies, and Population Dynamics: flight into exile: internal armed conflict and refugee displacement; Government policies and refugee dynamics: geographies of movement. Spatializing Gendered Transnational Identities: Transnational ethnographies: gendered narratives of rupture and suture; Social spaces and immobility of refugee transnationalism. Conclusion: Refugee transnationalism; Bibliography. Appendices: Glossary of immigrant categories and related terms; Seeing more numbers; From asylum to control: testimony of a deported taxi driver; "This is what I want to deliver": Antonio's escape to Canada; Index.