Women Migrants From East To West

Author : Luisa Passerini,uisa,,Dawn Lyon,Enrica Capussotti,Ioanna Laliotou
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781845452773

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Women Migrants From East to West by Luisa Passerini,uisa,,Dawn Lyon,Enrica Capussotti,Ioanna Laliotou Pdf

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.

Author : Mirela Shira
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783656295198

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Women migrants in Western Europe by Mirela Shira Pdf

Scientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Sociology - Politics, Majorities, Minorities, grade: 2, University of Vienna (Institut für den Donauraum und Mitteleuropa), course: Modul Soziologie, language: English, abstract: Eighteen years ago, mobility in eastern and central Europe beyond national frontiers was rare. After the fall of the Berlin wall the migration from East to West was a significant trend in international patterns and mobility. The relation between Eastern and Western Europe has been determined by the intensification of a variety of political, economic, and cultural exchanges between East and West. It is this human mobility, the transnational migration, its physical, cultural, political, subjective and conceptual form of movement, which play a central role in these exchanges. We are living now in a world which is organised along multiple axes of mobility, circulation, flows of people and commodities. The number of the migrants and especially that of women migrants has marked an increase in the recent years. The movement of people across Europe is changing the landscape of the continent. The migrants are becoming active subjects to their own social life as well as to legal and political regulation amongst others. Although the majority of the migrants are born in East Europe they are part of the European identity and they are taking responsibility for this transnational space of mediation and exchange called Europe. Apart from countries and cultures there are also spaces of social interaction that determine the establishment of relationships. The transition from state socialism to capitalism has had a huge impact on the lives and the position of the women in Eastern European societies. This political change has been accompanied by the intensification of multi-level communication between the European East and the West.

Author : Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru,Madalina Nicolaescu,Helen Smith
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783643904485

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Between History and Personal Narrative by Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru,Madalina Nicolaescu,Helen Smith Pdf

This collection focuses on a variety of fictional and non-fictional East European women's migration narratives, multimodal narratives by migrant artists, and cyber narratives (blogs and personal stories posted on forums). The book negotiates the concept of narrative between conventional literary forms, digital discourses, and the social sciences. It brings together new perspectives on strategies of representation, trauma, dislocation, and gender roles. It also claims a place for Eastern Europe on the map of transnational feminism. (Series: Contributions to Transnational Feminism - Vol. 4) [Subject: Sociology, European Studies, Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies, Migration Studies]

Author : Annie Phizacklea
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000777628

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One Way Ticket by Annie Phizacklea Pdf

One Way Ticket (1983) examines the ‘hidden armies’ of migrant women workers who have since the 1950s fulfilled a demand for low-skilled, low paid and insecure work in both the formal and informal economies of Western Europe. It presents a new focus for the examination of labour migration and of the specific character of female employment. It looks at the relationship between motherhood, waged work and ethnicity; the position of a second generation of black women workers; and the oppression and exploitation of migrant women by their male counterparts through the creation of ‘ethnic’ economies.

Author : Nadia Haggag Youssef,International Center for Research on Women
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : UIUC:30112047319311

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Women in Migration by Nadia Haggag Youssef,International Center for Research on Women Pdf

Author : Kasturi Bhadra Ray
Publisher : Smriti Publishers
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Status Of Women Migrants by Kasturi Bhadra Ray Pdf

The Partition of India resulted in a massive exodus of men, women and children from both East and West Pakistan to India in 1947.Even after the emergence of East Pakistan as Bangladesh, an independent democratic nation in 1971, the flow of migrants to the eastern states of India, namely West Bengal, Orissa, Assam and Tripura was not stemmed. The women among them, not only came along with their families, but also singly. Very often forced to accept the burden of a new refugee life, they began their struggle for survival and existence, fraught more often than not, with difficulty and adverse circumstances .The challenge sometimes became so acute, that there was a metamorphic change in their behaviour, thinking and attitude. The status of the women migrants under such circumstances is uncertain and precarious. This book, the outcome of the doctoral thesis at Jadavpur University, Kolkata is an attempt to present a picture of the status of women migrants from Bangladesh who have settled in the two states of West Bengal and Orissa after 1971, specifically, between 1971-2001.The position these women in the wider fabric of India society and their status at home and workplace have been studied, based on a primary survey in selected areas of West Bengal and Orissa, namely Nadia and Murshidabad in West Bengal and Kendrapara in Orissa where there are large settlements of migrants from Bangladesh. It is sincerely hoped that this book will be useful to scholars and researchers in the fields of economics, demography and women studies.

Author : Luisa Passerini,Dawn Lyon,Enrica Capussotti
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9781845452780

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Women Migrants From East to West by Luisa Passerini,Dawn Lyon,Enrica Capussotti Pdf

Women Migrants from East to West documents the contemporaryphenomenon of the feminisation of migration through anexploration of the lives of women who have moved from Bulgariaand Hungary to Italy and the Netherlands. The research is basedon the oral histories of eighty migrant women and thirtyadditional interviews with `native' women in ......

Author : Gina Buijs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UIUC:30112018513900

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Migrant Women by Gina Buijs Pdf

Most of the women studied in this volume hoped to retain their original culture and lifestyle at least to some extent but found that the exigencies of being migrants and refugees forced them to examine their preconceptions and to adopt roles, both social and economic, which they would have rejected at home. This remaking of self was often a traumatic experience with serious repercussions on their relationships with their menfolk.

Author : Kirstie Petrou
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789206210

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If Everyone Returned, The Island Would Sink by Kirstie Petrou Pdf

Focusing on the small island of Paama, Vanuatu, and the capital, Port Vila, this book presents a rare and recent study of the ongoing significance of urbanization and internal migration in the Global South. Based on longitudinal research undertaken in rural ‘home’ places, urban suburbs and informal settlements, this book reveals the deep ambivalence of the outcome of migration, and argues that the fundamental organizing principles of cultural life – in this case centered on kinship and an ‘island home’ – are significantly more important for urban and rural living than the effects of migration.

Author : Jennifer A. Miller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487521929

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Turkish Guest Workers in Germany by Jennifer A. Miller Pdf

Turkish Guest Workers in Germany tells the post-war story of Turkish "guest workers," whom West German employers recruited to fill their depleted ranks. Jennifer A. Miller's unique approach starts in the country of departure rather than the country of arrival and is heavily informed by Turkish-language sources and perspectives. Miller argues that the guest worker program, far from creating a parallel society, involved constant interaction between foreign nationals and Germans. These categories were as fluid as the Cold War borders they crossed. Miller's extensive use of archival research in Germany, Turkey and the Netherlands examines the recruitment?of workers, their travel, initial housing and work engagements, social lives, and involvement in labour and religious movements. She reveals how contrary to popular misconceptions, the West German government attempted to maintain a humane, foreign labour system and the workers themselves made crucial, often defiant, decisions. Turkish Guest Workers in Germany identifies the Turkish guest worker program as a postwar phenomenon that has much to tell us about the development of Muslim minorities in Europe and Turkey's ever-evolving relationship with the European Union.

Author : Heather Merrill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1452908877

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An Alliance of Women by Heather Merrill Pdf

In the 1980s, Italy transformed from a country of emigration to one of immigration. Italians are now faced daily with the presence of migrants from all over Africa, parts of South and Central America, the Middle East, Asia, and Eastern Europe. While much attention has been paid to the impact on Italians, few studies have focused on the agency of migrants themselves. In An Alliance of Women, Heather Merrill investigates how migrants and Italians struggle over meanings and negotiate social and cultural identities. Taking as a starting point the Italian crisis over immigration in the early 1990s, Merrill examines grassroots interethnic spatial politics among female migrants and Turin feminists in Northern Italy. Using rich ethnographic material, she traces the emergence of Alma Mater—an anti-racist organization formed to address problems encountered by migrant women. Through this analysis, Merrill reveals the dynamics of an alliance consisting of women from many countries of origin and religious and class backgrounds. Highlighting an interdisciplinary approach to migration and the instability of group identities in contemporary Italy, An Alliance of Women presents migrants grappling with spatialized boundaries amid growing nativist and anti-immigrant sentiment in Western Europe. Heather Merrill is assistant professor of geography and anthropology at Dickinson College.

Author : Helen Kopnina
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015062599322

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East to West Migration by Helen Kopnina Pdf

The collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe brought widespread fear of a 'tidal wave' of immigrants from the East into Western Europe. This book focuses on Russian migration into Western Europe following the break-up of the Soviet Union. Based on extensive interviews, this fascinating and unique ethnographic account of the 'new migration' challenges the underlying assumptions of traditional migration studies and post-modern theories.

Author : Cinzia D. Solari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351782258

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On the Shoulders of Grandmothers by Cinzia D. Solari Pdf

On the Shoulders of Grandmothers is a global ethnography of Ukrainian transnational migration. Gendered migrant subjectivities are a key site for understanding the production of neoliberal capitalism and Ukrainian nation-state building, a fraught process that places Ukraine precariously between Europe and Russia with dramatic implications for the political economy of the region. However, processes of gender and migration that undergird transnational nation-state building require further attention. Solari compares two patterns of Ukrainian migration: the "forced" exile of middle-aged women, most grandmothers, to Italy and the "voluntary" exodus of families, led by the same cohort of middle-aged women, to the United States. In both receiving sites these migrants are caregivers to the elderly. Using in-depth interviews and ethnographic data collected in three countries, Solari shows that Ukrainian nation-state building occurs transnationally. She examines the collective practices of migrants who are building the "new" Ukraine from the outside in and shaping both Italy and the United States as well. The Ukrainian state, in order to fulfil its First World aspirations of joining Europe and distancing itself from all things Soviet, is pursuing a gendered reorganization of family and work structures to achieve a transition from socialism to capitalism. This has created a labor force of migrant grandmothers who carry the new Ukraine on their shoulders. Solari shows that this post-Soviet economic transformation requires a change in the moral order as migrant women struggle to understand how to be "good" mothers and grandmothers and men join women in attempts to teach their children to be successful and honorable people, now that the social rules have drastically changed. Looking at individual migrant women and men and their families in Ukraine allows us to see the production of neoliberal capitalism and new nationalism from the ground up and the outside in for a region that promises to be a flashpoint in our century.

Author : Silvia Maja Melzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3763941037

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Causes and Consequences of the Gender-specific Migration from East to West Germany by Silvia Maja Melzer Pdf

Author : Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807862841

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Abiding Courage by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo Pdf

Between 1940 and 1945, thousands of African Americans migrated from the South to the East Bay Area of northern California in search of the social and economic mobility that was associated with the region's expanding defense industry and its reputation for greater racial tolerance. Drawing on fifty oral interviews with migrants as well as on archival and other written records, Abiding Courage examines the experiences of the African American women who migrated west and built communities there. Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo vividly shows how women made the transition from southern domestic and field work to jobs in an industrial, wartime economy. At the same time, they were struggling to keep their families together, establishing new households, and creating community-sustaining networks and institutions. While white women shouldered the double burden of wage labor and housework, black women faced even greater challenges: finding houses and schools, locating churches and medical services, and contending with racism. By focusing on women, Lemke-Santangelo provides new perspectives on where and how social change takes place and how community is established and maintained.