International Conference: Women, Migration, and Aging in the Americas, 19th – 21st Centuries. A multidisciplinary and comparative analysis of dependence or autonomy through old age
Type:
Call for Papers
Date:
September 26, 2019 to September 27, 2019
Location:
France
Subject Fields:
Demographic History / Studies, Women's & Gender History / Studies, American History / Studies, Immigration & Migration History / Studies
This conference will be dedicated to the study of immigrant women’s destinies in the Americas and their experiences of dependence or autonomy through aging, retirement, and/or widowhood in the 19th - 21st centuries.
Women have immigrated into the Americas in greater and greater numbers after 1850. However, their mass migration began around the turn of the twentieth century, much later than men’s, so that the sex ratio only became balanced later in the twentieth century (Donato et al., 2011; Gabaccia, 2015, Alexander et al., 2012).
