Women Migrants From East to West

Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe

Avuisa,Dawn Lyon

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-01-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:463 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:344
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781845452780

Utforska kategorier

Migration inom Samhälle och politik
Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Luisa Passerini was Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turin, and is currently External Professor at the European University Institute, Florence, and Visiting Professor in the Oral History Master Program, Columbia University, New York.

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"…the result of an exciting oral history project…this rich edited volume offers a compelling look at the meanings of the feminization of intra-European migration…One of the primary strengths of the volume is its effective approach to the collection and transmission of oral histories." — Oral History

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsEditors’ IntroductionList of Tables – Table 1Interviews by CountryPART I: SUBJECTIVITY, MOBILITY AND GENDER IN EUROPEChapter 1. On Becoming EuropeansRosi BraidottiChapter 2. “I want to see the world”: Mobility and Subjectivity in the European ContextIoanna LaliotouChapter 3. Transformations of Legal Subjectivity in Europe: From the Subjection of Women to Privileged SubjectsHanne PetersenIntermezzo: ‘A dance through Life’: Narratives of Migrant WomenNadejda Alexandrova and Anna HortobagyiPART II: SUBJECTIVITY IN MOTION: ANALYSING THE LIVES OF MIGRANT WOMENChapter 4. Imaginary Geographies: Border-places and ‘Home’ in the Narratives of Migrant WomenNadejda Alexandrova and Dawn LyonChapter 5. ‘My hobby is people’: Migration and Communication in the Light of Late TotalitarianismMiglena NikolchinaChapter 6. Migrant Women in WorkEnrica Capussotti, Ioanna Laliotou and Dawn LyonChapter 7. The topos of Love in the Life-stories of Migrant WomenNadejda AlexandrovaChapter 8. Food-talk: Markers of Identity and Imaginary Belongings Andrea Petö Relationships in the making: Accounts of native womenEnrica Capussotti and Esther VonkPART III: PROCESSES OF IDENTIFICATION: INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION OF MIGRANT WOMENChapter 9. Migration, Integration and Emancipation: Women’s Positioning in the Debate in the NetherlandsEsther VonkChapter 10. Modernity versus Backwardness: Italian Women’s Perceptions of Self and OtherEnrica CapussottiChapter 11. Moral and Cultural Boundaries in Representations of Migrants: Italy and the Netherlands in Comparative Perspective Dawn LyonChapter 12. Changing Matrimonial Law in the Image of Immigration LawInger Marie Conradsen and Annette KronborgIntermezzo. In transit: Space, People, IdentitiesAndrea PetöConclusions: Gender, Subjectivity, Europe: A Constellation for the FutureLuisa PasseriniAppendix I: Summary of individual intervieweesAppendix II: Summary of interviewees’ characteristics by nationalityNotes on ContributorsIndex

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