“THE DAUGHTERS HAVE GROWN UP” Transnational Motherhood, Migration and Gender among Catholic Nuns

Mortality among Catholic nuns certified as radiologic technologists.

BACKGROUND Several studies have shown that Catholic nuns have a different mortality experience than women of similar age in the general population. We had a unique opportunity to evaluate mortality patterns of nuns identified in an occupational study of nearly 145,000 radiologic technologists (73% female). METHODS A total of 1,103 women were classified as nuns based on their titles of "Sister...

Migration and the accentuated ambivalence of motherhood: the role of ICTs in Filipino transnational families

This article is concerned with the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on Filipina transnational mothers’ experience of motherhood, their practices of mothering and, ultimately, their identities as mothers. Drawing on ethnographic research with Filipina migrants in the UK as part of a wider study of Filipino transnational families, this article observes that, despite the...

(Review) Nails in the Wall: Catholic Nuns in Reformation Germany

Gender, class, and network: social structure and migration patterns among transnational Israelis

A growing body of research and theorising explores the experience of groups who maintain ties to multiple nations. However, this research often overemphasises the fluidity and freedom available to migrants and neglects the differential access to networks available to co-nationals who vary in their class, ethnic, gender and affiliational characteristics. Drawing on fieldwork and in-depth intervi...

Globalized migration and transnational epidemiology.

During the latter part of the 1800s, the union of migration and epidemiology first surfaced. In that era, the changing shipping patterns that put more people from cholera endemic areas into London, as well as the isolated occurrence of two cholera cases among recent immigrants from Germany to London, bolstered John Snow’s belief that cholera was transmitted from person to person. Other studies ...