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Women Migrants From East to West: Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe
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Women Migrants From East to West: Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe
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Overview
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
ISBN-13: | 9781845452773 |
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Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
Publication date: | 11/01/2007 |
Pages: | 344 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
About the Author
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.
Dawn Lyon is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent, UK, and has published in the field of gender, work and employment in comparative perspective.
Enrica Capussotti is Research Fellow in the Department of History, University of Siena, Italy, and is author of Gioventù perduta. Gli anni cinquanta dei giovani e del cinema in Italia (Florence: Giunti, 2004).
Ioanna Laliotou is Assistant Professor in Contemporary History, University of Thessaly, Greece, and is author of Transatlantic Subjects: Acts of Migration and Culture of Transnationalism between Europe and America (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2004).
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Editors’ Introduction List of Tables – Table 1 Interviews by CountryPART I: SUBJECTIVITY, MOBILITY AND GENDER IN EUROPE
Chapter 1. On Becoming Europeans Rosi Braidotti
Chapter 2. “I want to see the world”: Mobility and Subjectivity in the European Context Ioanna Laliotou
Chapter 3. Transformations of Legal Subjectivity in Europe: From the Subjection of Women to Privileged Subjects Hanne Petersen
Intermezzo: ‘A dance through Life’: Narratives of Migrant Women Nadejda Alexandrova and Anna Hortobagyi
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 Nadejda Alexandrova and Dawn Lyon
Chapter 5. ‘My hobby is people’: Migration and Communication in the Light of Late Totalitarianism Miglena Nikolchina
Chapter 6. Migrant Women in Work Enrica Capussotti, Ioanna Laliotou and Dawn Lyon
Chapter 7. The topos of Love in the Life-stories of Migrant Women Nadejda Alexandrova
Chapter 8. Food-talk: Markers of Identity and Imaginary Belongings Andrea Petö Relationships in the making: Accounts of native women Enrica Capussotti and Esther Vonk
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 Esther Vonk
Chapter 10. Modernity versus Backwardness: Italian Women’s Perceptions of Self and Other Enrica Capussotti
Chapter 11. Moral and Cultural Boundaries in Representations of Migrants: Italy and the Netherlands in Comparative Perspective Dawn Lyon
Chapter 12. Changing Matrimonial Law in the Image of Immigration Law Inger Marie Conradsen and Annette Kronborg
Intermezzo. In transit: Space, People, Identities Andrea Petö
Conclusions: Gender, Subjectivity, Europe: A Constellation for the Future Luisa Passerini
Appendix I: Summary of individual interviewees Appendix II: Summary of interviewees’ characteristics by nationality
Notes on Contributors Index