The Politics of Women and Migration in the Global South

Chapter 1. Introducing and contextualising feminised migration.- Chapter 2. The feminisation of migration? A critical overview.- Chapter 3. Gender and migration policies in Asia.- Chapter 4. Indonesian maids in the Arab world: Hopes, dreams, and disillusionment.- Chapter 5. Masculinisation or feminisation? Lebanese emigration and the dynamics of arranged cousin marriages in Australia.- Chapter 6. Women at risk and their right to asylum in Australia.- Chapter 7. Who cares? The unintended consequences of policy for migrant families.

David Tittensor is Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University, Australia, and Research Fellow to the UNESCO Chair in Comparative Research on Cultural Diversity and Social Justice. His research interests are transnationalism, Muslim movements, Turkish politics and society, religion and development, and the Middle East. He is the author of The House of Service: The Gülen Movement and Islam's Third Way and an edited volume (with Matthew Clarke) entitled Islam and Development: Exploring the Invisible Aid Economy. 
Fethi Mansouri holds the Alfred Deakin Professorship, is the Deakin University research chair in migration and intercultural studies, and the Director of the Alfred Deakin Research Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, at Deakin University, Australia. In 2013 he was awarded a UNESCO Chair in comparative research on Cultural Diversity and Social Justice. He is the editor of the Journal of Intercultural Studies and founding co-editor of the international journal of Social Inclusion. Professor Mansouri is a global expert advisor to the United Nations (Alliance of Civilisations) on cultural diversity and intercultural relations and is a prominent scholar nationally and internationally.