Evangelia Tastsoglou and Alexandra Dobrowolsky, eds. Women, Migration, and Citizenship: Making Local, National, and Transnational Connections.

Evangelia Tastsoglou and Alexandra Dobrowolsky, eds. Women, Migration, and Citizenship: Making Local, National, and Transnational Connections. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2006. 258 pp. $99.95 hc.

This collection is a critical examination of migrant women's citizenship in the contemporary context of globalization, high migration, and security concerns. The case studies provide a global perspective of migrant women who fall within and outside citizenship protections and the nation-state. The authors are concerned with discrimination towards women, women's response, and the implications for women's accommodation and resistance to oppression. The authors argue that although migrant women experience substandard citizenship rights, migrant women are also active human agents challenging gender-based roles and nation-based notions of membership.

In the first chapter, …