Gender and the Québécois Migration to New England, 1870-1930 : A Comparative Case Study

Waldron, FlorenceMae

A study of gender in the context of Quebecois immigration to the United States over a sixty-year period (1870-1930). Observations on gender evidenced in the labor statistics of this time period. The foundation and development of a Franco American "transnational identity," and the impact of gender concepts on immigrant identity building (iv). From the author: "This study...seeks to understand both how gender shaped the process of relocation for the migrants, and how the migrants' understandings of gender changed throughout the migration process. Using a comparative case study, it focuses primarily on the French Canadian migrant communities of Lewiston, Maine and Worcester, Massachusetts" (iv).

Minneapolis, Minnesota

2003

en

Thesis/Dissertation

1870-1930; New England; Québec