ANTH 509 Gender and Migration: Central American Women in Greater Washington
The number of Central American women immigrants in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area has increased significantly in the last decades. In a global economy, macro structural factors explain their incorporation to this metropolitan region while leaving their families in their home societies. Based on ethnographic work on Salvadoran and Honduran women settled in Greater Washington, this course will focus on how structural, ethnic and gender factors affect this migratory movement led by women and the development of transnationalism as a pattern of adaptation.