Gender, Nation and Diaspora

Gender and Nation

State of the World's Minorities

Afshar, Haleh. ed. 1996. Women and Politics in the Third World. New York: Routledge.

Agacinski, Sylviane. Translation by Lisa Walsh. 2001. Parity of the Sexes. Columbia University Press.

Alarcon, N. et al. eds. 1999. Between Women and Nation: Feminism and Global Issues. Durham: Duke University Press.

Ali, Suki, Kelly Coate and Wangui wa Goro. eds. 2000. Global Feminist Politics: Identity in the Changing World. New York: Routledge.

Anderson, Bonnie S. 2000. Joyous Greetings: the First International Women's Movement, 1830-1860. Oxford University Press.

Azhgikhina, Nadezhda and Meredith Tax. eds. 2000. The Power of the World II: Women's Voices and the New European Order. Women's WORLD.

Babb, Florence E. 2001. After Revolution: Mapping Gender and Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Nicaragua. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Brown, Mary Jane. 2000. Eradicating this Evil: Women in the American Anti-Lynching Movement, 1892-1940. Routledge.

Bhavnani, Kum-Kum. ed. 2001. Feminism and 'Race'. Oxford University Press.

Bishop, Elizabeth. 2002. "Imperious ironies: Political suffrage, discourses of citizenship, and facts of empire." Book review of Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation and Race. 2000. (eds.) Ian Christopher Fletcher, Laura E. Nym Mayhall and Philippa Levine. H-NET Book Review.

Blair, Kristine and Pamela Takayoshi. eds. 1999. Feminist Cyberscapes: Mapping Gendered Academic Spaces. Stanford, CT: Ablex Publication.

Cane, Aleta Feinsod and Susan Alves. eds. 2001 'The Only Efficient Instrument': American Women Writers and the Periodical, 1837-1916. Iowa City: University Press of Iowa.

Christie, Christine. 2001. Gender and Language: Towards a Feminist Pragmatics. Edinburgh University Press.

Cortina, Regina and Nelly P. Stromquist. eds. 2000. Distant Alliances: Promoting Education for Girls and Women in Latin America. New York: RoutledgeFalmer Press.

Dekoven, Marianne. ed. 2001. Feminist Locations: Global and Local, Theory and Practice. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutger's University Press.

Domosh, Mona and Joni Seager. 2001. Putting Women in Place: Feminist Geographers Make Sense of the World. New York: Guilford Press.

Eschle, Catherine. 2001. Global Democracy, Social Movements and Feminism. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Esposito, John L. with Natana J. DeLong-Bas. 2001. Women in Muslim Family Law, 2nd Edition. Syracuse University Press.

Fletcher, Ian Christopher, Laura E. Nym Mayhall and Philippa Levine. eds. 2000. Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, Nation and Race. London and New York: Routledge.

Gilmore, David. D. 2001. Misogyny: the Male Malady. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Hannam, June. 2000. International Encyclopaedia of Women's Suffrage. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Cilo.

Henriques, Jane. 1995. "No woman is an island." In New Internationalist 270. http://www.newint.org/issue270/island.html

Herbst, Philip H. 2000. Wimmin, Wimps and Wallflowers: An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Gender and Sexual Orientation Bias in the United States. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural.

Joseph, Suad and Susan Slyomovics. eds. 2001. Women and Power in the Middle East. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Kearney, Mary-Louise. ed. 2000. Women Power and the Academy: From Rhetoric to Reality. New York: Berghahn Books.

Khan, Nighat Said. 1999. Up Against the State: The Women's Movement in Pakistan - Implications for the Global Women's Movement. Toronto: Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto, Centre for Women's Studies in Education.

Lamoureux, Diane. 2001. L'Amere Patrie: Feminisme et Nationalitisme dans le Quebec Contemporain. Montreal: Editions du Remue-menage.

Mann, Susan and Yu-Yin Cheng. eds. 2001. Under Confucian Eyes: Writings on Gender in Chinese History. Berkley: University of California Press.

Mertus, Julie. 2001. "Grounds for cautious optimism." In International Feminist Journal of Politics 3(1): 99-103.

Mies, Maria. 1998. Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour. London: Zed Books.

Moghadam, Valentine. ed. 1994. Gender and National Identity. London: Zed Books.

Mojab, Shahrzad and Afsaneh Hojabri. 2000. Women of Iran: A Subject Bibliography. Cambridge, MA: Iranian Women's Studies Foundation.

Mogannam, Matiel. 1937. The Arab Woman and the Palestinian Problem. London: H. Joseph.

Moghadam, Valentine. ed. 1994. Gender and National Identity. London: Zed Books.

Moller Okin, Susan. 1999. Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Nashat, Guity. 1999. Women in the Middle East and North Africa: Restoring Women to History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Nelson, Sarah Milledge and Myriam Rosen-Ayalon. eds. 2001. In Pursuit of Gender: Worldwide Archaeological Approaches. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.

Noonan, Norma Corigliano and Carol Nechemwiias. eds. 2001. Encyclopedia of Russian Women's Movements. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

O-Q Commire, Anne and Deborah Klezmer. eds. 2001. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopaedia,Volume 12. Waterford CT: Yorkin Publications.

Patel, Ila. 1998. "Modernity and the mass media." In Women in the Third World: An Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Issues. (eds.) Nelly P. Stromquist and Karen Monkman. New York: Garland Publishing Inc.

Paul, Dierdre Glenn. 2001. Life, Culture and Education on the Academic Plantation: Womanist Thought and Perspective. New York: P. Lang.

Prummer, Christine von. 2000. Women and Distance Education; Challenges and Opportunities. New York: Routledge.

Ranchod-Nilsson, Sita and Mary Ann Tetreault. 2000. Women, States, and Nationalism: At Home in the Nation? New York: Routledge.

Russo, Ann. 2001. Taking Back Our Lives: A Call to Action for the Feminist Movement. New York: Routledge.

Salisbury, Joyce E. fwd. by Mary Lefkowitzt. 2001. Encyclopaedia of Women in the Ancient World. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Cilo.

Seligmann, Linda J. ed. 2001. Women Traders in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Mediating Identities, Marketing Wares. Stanford University Press.

Silliman, Jael and Ynestra King. eds. 1999. Dangerous Intersections: Feminist Perspectives on Population, Environment and Development-A Project of the Committee on women, Population and the Environment. Cambridge: South End Press.

Sudan: Woman in Public Life. for the Programme on Governance in the Arab World http://www.pogar.org/counries/sudan/women.html.

Sullivan, Shannon. 2001. Living Across and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism and Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Twine, France Winddance and Kathleen M. Blee. eds. 2001. Feminism & Anti-Racism: International Struggles for Justice. New York University Press.

Williams, Joan. 2001. Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to do About it. Oxford University Press.

World Bank. 2001. Engendering Development: Through Gender Equality in Rights, Resources and Voice. Washington DC.

Zandy, Janet. ed. 2001. What We Hold in Common: an Introduction to Working Class Studies. The Feminist Press at the City University of New York Press.

Zhong, Xueping et al. eds. 2001. Some of Us: Chinese Women Growing up in the Mao Era. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Middle East Context

Barghouthi, M. 1994. Palestinian NGO's and their Role in Building a Civil Society. Jerusalem: Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees.

Bayoumi, M. and Rubin, A. 2000. The Edward Said Reader. New York: Vintage.

Fernea Warnock, Elizabeth. ed. 1995. Children in the Muslim Middle East. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Khalaf, Samir. 1987. Lebanon's Predicament. New York: Columbia University Press.

Mackey, Sandra. 1989. Lebanon: Death of a Nation. New York: Congdon & Weed.

Said, Edward. 1996. Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process. New York: Random House.

Schulze, Kristen, Stokes, Martin, Campbell, Colin. eds. 1996. Nationalism, Minorities and Diasporas: Identities and Rights in the Middles East. New York: Tauris Academic Studies.

Diaspora

Anderson, Alan. 1998. "Diaspora and exile: A Canadian and comparative perspective." In International Journal of Canadian Studies 18(fall): 13-30.

Anthias, Floya. 1998. "Evaluating 'diaspora': Beyond ethnicity?" In Sociology 32(3): 557-580.

Arnove, Anthony. 1995. "The strategies of transnational communications." In Diaspora 4(3): 341-369.

Beinin, Joel. 1992. "Exile and political activism: The Egyptian-Jewish communists in Paris, 1950-59." In Diaspora 2(1): 73-94.

Brah, Avtar. 1996. Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities. London: Routeldge.

Chapin, Wesley. 1996. "The Turkish Diaspora in Germany." In Diaspora 5(2): 275-299.

Chow, Rey. 1993. Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

Dotty, Roxanne. 1996. "Immigration and national identity: constructing the nation." In Review of International Studies 22: 235-255.

Duffy, Edna. 1996. "Being materialist: Beyond polite postcolonialism." In Diaspora 5(2): 303-316.

__________. 1994. "Theorizing 'Glengormley', reconfiguring nationhood." In Diaspora 3(2):221-234.

Sharpe, Jenny. 1995. "Is the United States postcolonial? Transnationalism, immigration, and race." In Diaspora 4(2): 181-198.

Esman, Milton. "The political fallout of international migration." In Diaspora 2(1): 3-41.

Foner, Nancy. 1997. "What's new about transnationalism? New York today and at the turn of the century." In Diaspora 6(3): 355-375.

Goulbourne, Harry. 1988. "Ethnicity, nationalism and the humanitarian urge in western civilization." In Diaspora 2(87): 47-59.

Israel, Milton. 1991. "Transformation of the Sikh Diaspora." In Diaspora 1(3): 375-385.

Kazanjian, David. 1996. "Mass mediating diaspora: Iranian exile culture in Los Angeles." In Diaspora 5(2): 317-331.

Kearney, M. 1995. "The local and the global: The anthropology of globalization and transnationalism." In Annual Review of Anthropology 24: 547-565.

Knorr, Jacqueline, Barbara Meier. eds. Women and Migration: Anthropological Perspectives. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Koshy, Susan. 1994. "The geography of female subjectivity: Ethnicity, gender and diaspora." In Diaspora 3(1): 69-84.

Lazarus, Neil. 1993. "Postcolonialism and the dilemma of nationalism: Aijaz Ahmad's critique of third-worldism." In Diaspora 2(3): 373-400.

Marx, John. 1997. "Capitalism after globalization." In Diaspora 6(2): 253-271.

Naficy, Hamid. 1991. "The poetics and practices of Iranian nostalgia in exile." In Diaspora 1(3): 285-302.

Malkki, Liisa. 1995. "Refugees and exile: From 'refugee studies' to the national order of things." In Annual Review of Anthropology 24: 493-523.

Rosen, Philip. 1996. "Nation and anti-nation: Concepts of national cinema in the 'new' media era." In Diaspora 5(3): 475-402.

Safran, William. 1991. "Diasporas in modern societies: Myths of homeland and return." In Diaspora (Spring): 83- 99.

Sanasarian, Eliz. 1995. "State dominance and communal perseverance: The Armenian diaspora in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 1979-1989." In Diaspora 4(3)

Shain, Yossi and Martin Sherman. 1998. "Dynamics of disintegration: Diaspora, secession and the paradox of nation-states." In Nations and Nationalism 4(3): 321-46.

Shain, Yossi. 1994. "Marketing and the democratic creed abroad: US diasporic politics in the era of multiculturalism." In Diaspora 3(1): 85-111.

Sheffer, Gabriel. 1995. "The emergence of new ethno-national diasporas." In Migration: A European Journal of International Migration and Ethnic Relations 28: 5-28.

Spivak, Gayatri. 1997. "Diasporas old and new: Women in the transnational world." In Class Issues: Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, and the Public Sphere. (ed.) Amitava Kumar. New York and London: New York University Press. 87-116.

Stratton, Jon. 1997. "(Dis)placing the Jews: Historicizing the idea of diaspora." In Diaspora 6(3): 301-329.

__________. 1996. "The impossible ethnic: Jews and multiculturalism in Australia." In Diaspora 5(3): 339-373.

Temple, Bogusia. 1999. "Diaspora, diaspora space and Polish women." In Women's Studies International Forum 22(1): 17-24.

Toloyan, Khachig. 1991. "Commentary." In Diaspora 1(2): 225-228.

__________. 1991. "The nation-state and its others." In Diaspora (Spring): 3-7.

__________. 1996. "Rethinking diaspora(s): Stateless power in the transnational moment." In Diaspora 5(1): 3-36.

Vertovec, Steven. 1997. "Three meanings of 'diaspora,' exemplified among south Asian religions." In Diaspora 6(3): 277-299.

Immigration and Refugee Policy

Ad Hoc Committee on Gender Analysis of the Immigration Act, National Association of Women and the Law. March, 1999. Gender Analysis of Immigration and Refugee Protection Legislation and Policy: Submission to Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

Aiken, Sharryn J. 2001. "Of Gods and monsters: National security and Canadian refugee policy" (Draft publication forthcoming in 2001). Revue quebecoise de droit international 14.

__________. 2001. Comments on Bill C-11: Related to National Security and Terrorism: Submission to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration. Toronto: Centre for Refugee Studies, York University.

Arat-Koc, Sedef. 1999. "NAC's response to the Immigration Legislative Review Report: 'Not just numbers...'" in Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme: Immigrant & Refugee Women 19(3).

Azuh, Margaret. 1998. Foreign-Trained Professionals: Facilitating Their Contribution to the Canadian Economy. Ottawa: Status of Women Canada.

Briskin, Linda, and Mona Eliasson. 1999. Women's Organizing and Public Policy in Canada and Sweden. Montreal: McGill-Queen=s University Press.

Canadian Council for Refugees / Conseil Canadien Pour Les Refugies. May 2001. International Conference on Refugee Women Fleeing Gender-Based Persecution. Conference Proceedings. Montreal: Canadian Council for Refugees/Conseil Canadien pour les Refugies.

Citizenship and Immigration Canada / Citoyennete et Immigration Canada. 1998. Facts and Figures: Immigration Overview, 1997. Ottawa: Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Communications Branch: Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada.

Cohen, Steve. 2001. Immigration Controls, the Family and the Welfare State. London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Community Legal Education Ontario in cooperation with the Inter-clinic Immigration Working Group. April, 2001. Bill C-11: Some Key Pieces: Proposals for a new immigration and refugee law. Toronto: Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO).

Crawley, Heaven. 2001. Refugees and Gender: Law and Process. Bristol: Jordan Publishing Limited.

Daniels, Ronald J., Patrick Macklem, and Kent Roach. 2001. The Security of Freedom: Essays on Canada's Anti-Terrorism Bill. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Doe, Tanis and Sally Kimpson. 1999. Enabling Income: CPP Disability Benefits and Women with Disabilities. Status of Women Canada. www.swc-cfc.gc.ca/publish/research/doe-e.pdf

Federal Government, Canada. 2001. The Anti-Terrorism Act (Bill C-36).

Federal Government, Canada. 2001. The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (Bill C-11).

Fernandes, Despond. 2001. "The targeting and criminalisation of Kurdish asylum seekers and refugee communities in the UK and Germany." Paper presented at the Peace Kurdistan Campaign (UK) International Conference. Washington.

Galabuzi, Grace-Edward. 2001. Canada's Creeping Economic Apartheid: the economic segregation& social marginalization of racialized groups. Toronto: Centre for Social Justice Foundation for Research and Education.

Griffiths, David. 2000. "Fragmentation and consolidation: The contrasting cases of Somali and Kurdish refugees in London." In Journal of Refugee Studies 13(3): 281-30.

Harper, Helen, Bonny Peirce, and Barbara Burnaby. 1996. "English-in-the-workplace for garment workers: A feminist project?" In Gender and Education 8(1): 5-19.

Hofstetter, Eleanore O. 2002. Women Immigrants 1945 to the Present: A Bibliography. http://www.towson.edu/~hofstet.

Hyndmas, Jennifer. 1999. "Gender & Canadian immigration policy: A current snapshot." In Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme: Immigrant & Refugee Women 19(3).

Isin, Engin F. and Patricia K. Wood. 2001. Citizenship and Identity. Ontario: York University, Sage Press.

Ismael, Jacqueline S. 1980. "Social Policy and Social Change: The Case of Iraq." In Arab Studies Quarterly 2(3).

James, Carl and Bengt Spowe. 2000. "Multicultural education in Canada & Sweden: A conversation in Toronto." In Multiethnica 26-27: 8-13. http:///www.multietn.uu.se/ArtiklarME/james.html.

Kelley, Ninette and Michael Trebilcock. 1999. The Making of the Mosaic: A History of Canadian Immigration Policy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Kritz, Mary M. 1987. "International migration policies: Conceptual problems." In International Migration Review, Special Issue: Measuring International Migration: Theory & Practice 21(4): 947-964.

Meyer-Emerick, Nancy. 2001. The Violence against Women Act of 1994: An Analysis of Intent and Perspection. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, Government of Australia. Minister for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs v Khawar HCA 14 Immigraion. 2002. http://scapeplus.law.gov.au/html/highcourt/0/2002/0/2002041114.html

Mojab, Shahrzad. 1999. "De-skilling immigrant women." In Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme: Immigrant & Refugee Women. 19(3). (PDF 356kb)

Morrison, John (with the assistance of Beth Crosland). 2000. The trafficking and smuggling of refugees: the end game in European asylum policy? Commissioned by UNHCR's Policy Research Unit, Centre for Documentation and Research. Pre-Publication Edition.

Razack, Sherene. 2000. "Simple logic: Race, the identity documents rule and the story of a nation besieged and betrayed." In Journal of Law and Social Policy 15.

Refugee Women's Resource Project. 2001. Women's Asylum News. 13 (August '01), 15 (October '01), 16 (Nov./Dec. '01), 17 (Jan. '02), 18 (Feb. '02), 19 (March '02), 21 (May '02), 23 (July '02).

Tyyska, Vappu. 2001. Women, Citizenship and Canadian Child Care Policy in the 1990's. Toronto: Childcare Resource and Research Unit, the Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto.

United Nations. 1997. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. (Last edited January, 1997).

Walzer, Michael. 1983. Spheres of Justice: A Defence of Pluralism and Equality. New York: Basic Books.

Diaspora: The Kurds

Adlim, Ayten (presentation).  September 2005.  “Multiple Oppression & Women’s Access to Healthcare.”  International Free Women’s Foundation.

Amman, Birgit.  “(Part III: Diaspora Communities) Kurds in Germany.”  Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World.    Ed. Melvin Ember, Chris Ember, and Ian Skoggard.

“Charter for the Rights and Freedoms of Women in the Kurdish Regions and Diaspora.” June 2004.  Kurdish Human Rights Project. 

Dansk Flygtningehjaelp.  “Legal and Social Conditions for Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Western European Countries (Sweden).”  (Accessed 6/6/2001).  Available from: (/swl/idex.php)

“Determining the Health and Social Needs of Kurdish Speaking Families in Hamilton-Wentworth.”  Final Report for: The Ontario Administration of Settlement and Immigration Services (OASIS) and Report for Review for: Project Participants.              

 Kurdish Human Rights Project.  November 3, 2005.  “Conference Report: Women’s Human Rights in Cultural Diversity London School of Economics, Friday 28th October, 2005-11-01.

Elman, Amy R. 2001.  “Unprotected by the Swedish Welfare State Revisited: A Decade of Reforms for Battered Women.”  Women’s Studies International Forum, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 39-52.

“Evaluation Report: An Evaluation of Swedish International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) Research 1995-2002.”  March 2003. Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research. 

Fernandes, Desmond.  October 2001.  “The Targeting and Criminalisation of Kurdish Asylum Seekers and Refugee Communities in the UK and Germany.”  Peace in Kurdistan Campaign, The Ahmed Foundation for Kurdish Studies.

Houston, Christopher.  “(Part III: Diaspora Communities) Creating a Diaspora within a Country: Kurds in Turkey.” Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World.    Ed. Melvin Ember, Chris Ember, and Ian Skoggard.

Ingleby, David. Ed.  “Forced Migration and Mental Health: Rethinking the Care of Refugees and Displaced Persons.”

Korteweg, Anna C.  June 27-30 2005.  “The Management of Gender Difference and Immigration Policy in the Netherlands.” (Draft).  Paper for SSRC/UCI Summer Institute on Immigration.

Kurdish Cultural Centre London.  October 15, 2000.  “Annual Report.”  Presented to Annual General Meeting.

Kurdistan Refugee Women’s Organisation. 1999. Kurdistan Refugee Women’s Organisation.

Kurdish Women’s International Conference. April 9-10 2005.  “Women in South Kurdistan and Establishment of Civil Society.”         

Morner, Marco.  1999.  “Democratic References: a qualitative study on attitudes towards democracy among Kurds living in Sweden.”  The Seminar for Development for Development Studies.  Uppsala University. 

Morgan, David.  February 4, 2006.  “Solidarity with Kurdish Women in Turkey.”  KurdishMedia.com.  (Accessed on 2/6/2006).  Available from: (
 
Nassehi-Behnam, Vida. 2005.  “Transnational Identities: A generational study of Iranian immigrants in France.”  JCAS Symposium Series,17, pp. 251-268.

Refugee Women’s Resource Project.  February 2002.  “Women’s Asylum News.”  Asylum Aid, Issue 18.

Sautter Bonn, Ursula.  April 30, 2001.  “Losers in the Language Gap: Failure to learn German is hurting young Turkish immigrants.” Time Magazine.  In Press Revue: Institut Kurde, 193, April 2001.

Mojab, Shahrzad and Rachel Gorman.  2007.  “Dispersed Nationalism: War, Diaspora and Kurdish Women’s Organizing.”  Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1.  (Winter). 

Stapleton, Barbara J.  April 10 2001.  “Report on DFID Roundtable Discussion on Violence Against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan.”  Department for International Development. 

Uguris, Dr. Tijen.  June 25, 2001.  “Diaspora and Citizenship: Kurdish Women in London.” East London Refugee Conference: Crossing Borders and Boundaries.

Wahlbeck, Osten.  “Kurds in Finland.”  Encyclopedia of Diasporas: Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World.    Ed. Melvin Ember, Chris Ember, and Ian Skoggard.