UID:
almafu_9961987632902883
Format:
1 online resource (344 p.)
ISBN:
9780857453662
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0857453661
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Table Of 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'; Chapter 3. Transformations of Legal Subjectivity in Europe; Intermezzo. 'A Dance through Life'; Part II. Subjectivity in Motion; Chapter 4. Imaginary Geographies; Chapter 5. 'My hobby is people'; Chapter 6. Migrant Women in Work; Chapter 7. The Topos of Love in the Life-stories of Migrant Women; Chapter 8. Food-talk; Intermezzo. Relationships in the Making
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Part III. Processes of IdentificationChapter 9. Migration, Integration and Emancipation; Chapter 10. Modernity versus Backwardness; Chapter 11. Moral and Cultural Boundaries in Representations of Migrants; Chapter 12. Changing Matrimonial Law in the Image of Immigration Law; Intermezzo. In Transit; Appendix 1. Summary of Individual Interviewees; Appendix 2. Summary of interviewees' characteristics by nationality; Notes on Contributors ; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845452780
Additional Edition:
ISBN 184545278X
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780857453662
