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Book Reviews The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Vol. 7, No. 2, August 2006, pp. 179 188 Gender and Ethnicity in Contemporary Europe JACQUELINE ANDALL (ed.) Oxford and New York, Berg, 2003 288pp., index, ISBN 1-85973-647-5, £50.00 (cloth); ISBN 1-85973-652-1, £15.99 (paper). Jacqueline Andall states that the aim of this collection of essays is to ‘give ethnic minority women greater visibility within the European context and to consider the relationship between gender and ethnicity from a number of thematic perspectives’ (p. 1). With this in mind, the collection attempts to tackle neglected tensions between gender, ethnicity and class in European Union countries and to provide the more detailed understandings of these tensions that are needed in refuting old stereotypes of women, migration and ethnicity. The majority of the contributions to this collection provide new and engaging material from researchers who present case studies on migration. The contributions to the book consider gender and ethnicity from four main thematic perspectives: the feminisation of migration; the political mobilisation of ethnic minority women; gender, ethnicity and Islam; and ethnicity and identity. The book consists of ten chapters divided into four sections according to these themes. Section one, ‘Gender, Ethnicity and Migration’, begins with an http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Taylor & Francis

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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Vol. 7, No. 2, August 2006, pp. 179 188 Gender and Ethnicity in Contemporary Europe JACQUELINE ANDALL (ed.) Oxford and New York, Berg, 2003 288pp., index, ISBN 1-85973-647-5, £50.00 (cloth); ISBN 1-85973-652-1, £15.99 (paper). Jacqueline Andall states that the aim of this collection of essays is to ‘give ethnic minority women greater visibility within the European context and to consider the relationship between gender and ethnicity...
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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Vol. 7, No. 2, August 2006, pp. 179 188 Gender and Ethnicity in Contemporary Europe JACQUELINE ANDALL (ed.) Oxford and New York, Berg, 2003 288pp., index, ISBN 1-85973-647-5, £50.00 (cloth); ISBN 1-85973-652-1, £15.99 (paper). Jacqueline Andall states that the aim of this collection of essays is to ‘give ethnic minority women greater visibility within the European context and to consider the relationship between gender and ethnicity from a number of thematic perspectives’ (p. 1). With this in mind, the collection attempts to tackle neglected tensions between gender, ethnicity and class in European Union countries and to provide the more detailed understandings of these tensions that are needed in refuting old stereotypes of women, migration and ethnicity. The majority of the contributions to this collection provide new and engaging material from researchers who present case studies on migration. The contributions to the book consider gender and ethnicity from four main thematic perspectives: the feminisation of migration; the political mobilisation of ethnic minority women; gender, ethnicity and Islam; and ethnicity and identity. The book consists of ten chapters divided into four sections according to these themes. Section one, ‘Gender, Ethnicity and Migration’, begins with an

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