48 P - Searching for Freedom: Migrations, Borders & New Alliances

Thursday, June 1, 2017: 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
BRESL 217 (Hofstra University)
Chair:
Elaine Carey, St. John's University
Port Sa'īd, 1859-1882: Nothing But Scum Jettisoned Upon the Edge of the Desert. Migration and Gender in a Provincial Port-City
Lucia Carminati, University of Arizona
1954 in the collective memory of the Honduran Resistencia movement
Suyapa Portillo Villeda, Pitzer College
Beyond Empowerment: Improving Rural Migrant Women Factory Workers' Lives in China
Crystal Marie Whetstone, University of Cincinnati

Session Abstract

Women migrants face particular challenges, explored by the papers in this panel. Lucia Carminati looks at the ways authorities in Port Said sought to control and regulate travellers and migrants in the nineteenth century city. Suyapa Portillo Villeda examines how the memory of the 1954 Honduran Banana Strike plays a powerful role in contemporary migrations and social movements. The final paper by Crystal Whetstone focuses on the role that labor NGOs play in China in promoting the rights of migrant women laborers.

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