Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective

Beatrice Zucca Micheletto is a researcher at DISSGeA, University of Padua (Italy). She is research affiliate at the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (Campop), University of Cambridge, UK, where she has been Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow (2017-2019). She is research affiliate at the Groupe de Recherche d’Histoire (GRHis) University of Rouen-Normandy (France). Her research focuses on women and gender history, history of the family, history of labour and apprenticeship, history of migration and mobility, history of charity institutions, citizenship in early modern Italy and France.

• Chapter 1. Gender and Migration: an historical and inclusive perspective (Beatrice Zucca Michelletto).- Part 1: Institutions, law and identity.- Chapter 2. Tracing migration within urban spaces: women’s mobility and identification practices in Venice (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) (Teresa Bernardi).- Chapter 3. Filling the gap, making a profession. Midwives, state control and medical care in mid-nineteenth century Wallachia (Nicoleta Roman).- Chapter 4. Foreign nannies and maids. A historical perspective on female immigration and domestic work in Italy (1960-1970) (Alessandra Gissi).- Part 2: Labour and household economy.- Chapter 5. Skills, training and kinship networks: women as economic migrants in London's livery companies, c. 1600-1800 (Sarah Birt).- Chapter 6. Women labour migration and serfdom in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) (Mateusz Wyzga).- Chapter 7. Staying or leaving: a female seasonal labour market in early modern Spain (1640-1690) (Gabriel Jover-Avellà, Joana Maria Pujades-Mora).- Chapter 8. Words at Work. Words on the Move. Textual Production of Migrant Women from Early Modern Prague Between Discourses and Practice (1570-1620) (Veronika Čapská).- Chapter 9. Migration, Marriage and Integration: Town Court Records and Imprints of Women Artisan Migrants in Sweden c. 1590‒1640 (Maija Ojala-Fullwood).- Chapter 10. Migration and the household economy of the poor in Catalonia, c. 1762-1803 (Montserrat Carbonell-Esteller, Julie Marfany, Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora).- Chapter 11. French migrant women as educators in Napoleonic Northern Italy (1804-1814) (Elisa Baccini).- Chapter 12. Transnational Migration in Wallachia during the 1830s. A Difficult Road from Broader Themes to Micro-History (Bogdan Mateescu).- Part 3: Social networks: kinship and community ties.- Chapter 13. Family, care and migration. Gendered paths from the Mediterranean mountains to Northern Europe in the nineteenth and early twentieth century (Manuela Martini).- Chapter 14. Migrant Brick- and Tile-Makers from the Island of Kythnos in Athens during the First Half of the Twentieth Century: A Gendered Perspective (Michalis Bardanis).- Chapter 15.“Women Were Always There…”:  Caribbean Immigrant Women, Mutual Aid Societies, and Benevolent Associations in the Early Twentieth Century (Tyesha Maddox).- Chapter 16. Conclusion. Towards a multifactorial approach to migration studies (Beatrice Zucca Micheletto).