Women Migrants From East to West : Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe /

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Based on the oral histories of eighty migrant women and thirty additional interviews with 'native' women in the 'receiving' countries, this volume documents the contemporary phenomenon of the feminisation of migration through an exploration of the lives of women, who have moved f...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Alexandrova, Nadejda (Contribuidor), Braidotti, Rosi (Contribuidor), Capussotti, Enrica (Contribuidor, Editor ), Conradsen, Inger Marie (Contribuidor), Hortobagyi, Anna (Contribuidor), Kronborg, Annette (Contribuidor), Laliotou, Ioanna (Contribuidor, Editor ), Lyon, Dawn (Contribuidor, Editor ), Nikolchina, Miglena (Contribuidor), Passerini, Luisa (Contribuidor), Petersen, Hanne (Contribuidor), Peto, Andrea (Contribuidor), Vonk, Esther (Contribuidor), uisa (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2007]
Temas:
East Europeans > Europe, Western > Social conditions.
Women immigrants > Europe > Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Editors' Introduction
  • Part I Subjectivity, Mobility and Gender in Europe
  • Chapter 1 On Becoming Europeans
  • Chapter 2 'I want to see the world': Mobility and Subjectivity in the European Context
  • Chapter 3 Transformations of Legal Subjectivity in Europe: From the Subjection of Women to Privileged Subjects
  • Intermezzo 'A Dance through Life': Narratives of Migrant Women
  • Part II Subjectivity in Motion: Analysing the Lives of Migrant Women
  • Chapter 4 Imaginary Geographies: Border-places and 'Home' in the Narratives of Migrant Women
  • Chapter 5 'My hobby is people': Migration and Communication in the Light of Late Totalitarianism
  • Chapter 6 Migrant Women in Work
  • Chapter 7 The Topos of Love in the Life-stories of Migrant Women
  • Chapter 8 Food-talk: Markers of Identity and Imaginary Belongings
  • Intermezzo Relationships in the Making: Accounts of Native Women
  • Part III: Processes of Identification: Inclusion and Exclusion of Migrant Women
  • Chapter 9 Migration, Integration and Emancipation: Women's Positioning in the Debate in the Netherlands
  • Chapter 10 Modernity versus Backwardness: Italian Women's Perceptions of Self and Other
  • Chapter 11 Moral and Cultural Boundaries in Representations of Migrants: Italy and the Netherlands in Comparative Perspective
  • Chapter 12 Changing Matrimonial Law in the Image of Immigration Law
  • Intermezzo In Transit: Space, People, Identities
  • Conclusions Gender, Subjectivity, Europe: A Constellation for the Future
  • Appendix 1 Summary of individual interviewees
  • Appendix 2 Summary of interviewees' characteristics by nationality
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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