This curated collection offers a timely and critical contribution to feminist approaches to diaspora studies, highlighting the multiple challenges and difficulties that diasporic women face, including racism and oppressive patriarchal norms. Building on extremely rich ethnographic and autoethnographic data, the authors invite us to consider diasporic women's stories in their diversity and complexity, highlighting the importance of intersectional approaches for understanding how and when they can exercise their agency. This collection will be of immense interest to scholars working at the intersection of gender and diaspora studies.

Élise Féron, Tampere University

This book portrays the different ways in which women experience diaspora. The editors include powerful and passionate accounts covering African and Vietnamese migrants, but the core contributions centre on Australian 'proxy brides' brought from southern Europe to marry unseen husbands in Australia. Many struggled with new language acquisition and retained homeland cultures and mother tongues. Without turning them into passive victims, the authors (some themselves descendants of proxy brides) movingly show both how the scars of their original arrival remained and how they could be transcended.

Robin Cohen, professor emeritus, University of Oxford; author of Global Diasporas: An Introduction