Transnational families, migration and gender : Moroccan and Filipino women in Bologna and Barcelona /

By linking the experiences of immigrant families with the increased reliance on cheap and flexible workers for care and domestic work in Southern Europe, this study documents the lived experiences of neglected actors of globalization migrant women as well as the transformations of Western families m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zontini, Elisabetta (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
Colección:New directions in anthropology ; v. 30.
Temas:
Women immigrants > Europe, Southern > Case studies.
Filipinos > Italy > Bologna > Social conditions.
Moroccans > Italy > Bologna > Social conditions.
Filipinos > Spain > Barcelona > Social conditions.
Moroccans > Spain > Barcelona > Social conditions.
Women immigrants > Italy > Bologna.
Women immigrants > Spain > Barcelona.
Families > Italy > Bologna.
Families > Spain > Barcelona.
Philippins > Italie > Bologne > Conditions sociales.
Marocains > Italie > Bologne > Conditions sociales.
Philippins > Espagne > Barcelone > Conditions sociales.
Familles > Italie > Bologne.
Familles > Espagne > Barcelone.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Families.
Filipinos > Social conditions.
Moroccans > Social conditions.
Women immigrants.
Europe, Southern > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects > Case studies.
Southern Europe.
Italy > Bologna.
Spain > Barcelona.
Case studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:By linking the experiences of immigrant families with the increased reliance on cheap and flexible workers for care and domestic work in Southern Europe, this study documents the lived experiences of neglected actors of globalization migrant women as well as the transformations of Western families more generally. However, while describing in detail the structural and cultural contexts within which these women have to operate, the book questions dominant paradigms about women as passive victims of patriarchal structures and brings out instead their agency and the creative ways in which they.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (268 pages) : maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-250) and index.
ISBN:9781845458058
1845458052
1845456181
9781845456184

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