It is a delight to encounter the broad scale of different women’s migrant experiences contained within this book. Putting together research projects which have stretched over time and space, from 1945 to 2007, McDowell offers us a breadth and depth rarely experienced. However, its reach is even longer than this period; Working Lives shows us how the legacies of the British Empire are lived through representations which shape migrant women into workers.

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