Gender, migration and distance. Maidservants as agents of change in the democratization of long-distance migration: a comparative case study of international migration by men and women to Brussels and Antwerp, 1850-1900. University of Antwerp
This project aims to investigate the role of female domestic servants in the democratisation of long distance migration by means of a comparative study of the trajectories and networks of male and female foreign newcomers to Antwerp and Brussels in 1850-1900. In this period, the image of long distance urban migrants as predominantly skilled and resourceful men engaged in patterns of career migration, became substituted for a bleaker picture of ...