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Women Migrants From East to West

By Uisa

Women Migrants From East to West Law

Women Migrants From East to West

By Uisa

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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 from Bulgaria and Hungary to Italy and the Netherlands. It assumes migrants to be active subjects, creating possibilities and taking decisions in their own lives, as well as being subject to legal and political regulation, and the book analyses the new forms of subjectivity that come about through mobility.
Part I is a largely conceptual exploration of subjectivity, mobility and gender in Europe. The chapters in Part II focus on love, work, home, communication, and food, themes which emerged from the migrant women's accounts. In Part III, based on the interviews with 'native' women - employers, friends, or in associations relevant to migrant women - the chapters analyse their representations of migrants, and the book goes on to explore forms of intersubjectivity between European women of different cultural origins. A major contribution of this book is to consider how the movement of people across Europe is changing the cultural and social landscape with implications for how we think about what Europe means.
Cover image: Painting by Carla Accardi. Reproduced with the kind permission of Luca Barsi of the Galleria Accademia, Via Accademia Albertina 3/e, 10123 Torino.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
344
Release Date:
2007-09-30
Publication Date:
2007-11-01
Publisher:
Berghahn Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1845452771
ISBN13:
9781845452773
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
650 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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