Dirk Hoerder has taught worldwide migrations, borderland interactions, and sociology of acculturation at University of Bremen and Arizona State University and in Toronto and Paris. Publications include Cultures in Contact (Duke University Press, 2002), Historical Practice of Diversity (Berghahn Books, 2003), Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims (Brill, 2011).Amarjit Kaur teaches at the University of New England, Australia, and focuses on international labour migration, forced migration in Southeast Asia, and issues of governance, inequality and labour rights. Publications include Wage Labour in Southeast Asia since 1840 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), Women Workers in Industrialising Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

• List of Maps, Tables and FiguresINTRODUCTIONUnderstanding International Migration: Comparative and Transcultural Perspectives, Amarjit Kaur and Dirk HoerderTranscultural Approaches to Gendered Labor Migration: From the Nineteenth-Century Proletarian to Twenty-First-Century Caregiver Migrations, Dirk HoerderGlobalizing the Household in East Asia, Mike DouglassATLANTIC WORLD: EUROPE AND THE AMERICASDomestic Service and Urbanization in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, Elizabeth A. KuznesofFeminisation of Migration and Problematisation of Migration: Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth century, Marlou SchroverMigration and Family Systems in Russia and the Soviet Union, Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries, Gijs KesslerFemina migrans: Agency of European Women Migrating to Domestic Work in North America, 1880s to 1950s, Christiane Harzig and Dirk HoerderTHE AFRICAS AND THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEANInterdependence to Convergence: Migration, Men, and Work in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1800–1975, Dennis D. CordellMigrations in the Maghreb and Western Mediterranean, Kamel Kateb and Hassène Kassar“Women Were Strong”: Gender and Immigration from the Eastern Mediterranean, Akram KhaterTHE ASIASChinese Emigration in Global Context, 1850–1940, Adam McKeownJapan, Labour Migration, and the Global Order of Difference, Vera MackieShifting Geographies of Migration in Southeast Asia: Continuity and Change in Proletarian and Gendered Migrations, Amarjit KaurMigration into Thailand: Change and Continuity from a Gender Perspective, Patcharawalai WongboonsinCASE STUDIES: SOUTHEAST ASIAN DOMESTIC AND CARE-WORKER MIGRATIONSIndonesian Domestic Workers Overseas: Their Position and Protection in the Global Labour Market, Muhamad Nadratuzzaman Hosen and Aswatini RahartoFrom Amah-chieh to Indonesian Maids: A Comparative Study in the Context of Malaysia circa 1930s–1990s, Ooi Keat GinWomen Migrant Workers and Visibility in Malaysia: The Role of Media in Society, Kiranjit KaurADJUSTING FAMILY LIFE / GLOBALIZING CAREWORK AND HOUSEHOLDINGRethinking the “Left-Behind” in Chinese Migrations: A Case of Liberating Wives in 1950s South China, Shelly ChanMarriage Migration: Love in Brokered Marriages in Contemporary Japan, Tomoko NakamatsuMigration and Transformation: The Gendering of International Migration from the Philippines in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries, Rochelle BallNotes on ContributorsIndex