Women Migrants From East to West: Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe

Published by Berghahn Books 2007

Women Migrants From East to West

Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe

Edited by: uisa , Dawn Lyon , Enrica Capussotti and Ioanna Laliotou

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857453662

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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.

Author / Editor information

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).

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.

Reviews

"…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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Editors’ Introduction Luisa Passerini, Dawn Lyon, Enrica Capussotti and Ioanna Laliotou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Subjectivity, Mobility and Gender in Europe
Chapter 1 On Becoming Europeans Rosi Braidotti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 2 ‘I want to see the world’: Mobility and Subjectivity in the European Context Ioanna Laliotou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Chapter 3 Transformations of Legal Subjectivity in Europe: From the Subjection of Women to Privileged Subjects Hanne Petersen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
Intermezzo ‘A Dance through Life’: Narratives of Migrant Women Nadejda Alexandrova and Anna Hortobagyi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Chapter 5 ‘My hobby is people’: Migration and Communication in the Light of Late Totalitarianism Miglena Nikolchina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Chapter 6 Migrant Women in Work Enrica Capussotti, Ioanna Laliotou and Dawn Lyon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Chapter 7 The Topos of Love in the Life-stories of Migrant Women Nadejda Alexandrova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
Chapter 8 Food-talk: Markers of Identity and Imaginary Belongings Andrea Peto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
Intermezzo Relationships in the Making: Accounts of Native Women Enrica Capussotti and Esther Vonk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Chapter 10 Modernity versus Backwardness: Italian Women’s Perceptions of Self and Other Enrica Capussotti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Chapter 11 Moral and Cultural Boundaries in Representations of Migrants: Italy and the Netherlands in Comparative Perspective Dawn Lyon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
Chapter 12 Changing Matrimonial Law in the Image of Immigration Law Inger Marie Conradsen and Annette Kronborg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
Intermezzo In Transit: Space, People, Identities Andrea Peto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Conclusions Gender, Subjectivity, Europe: A Constellation for the Future Luisa Passerini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Appendix 1 Summary of individual interviewees Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
Appendix 2 Summary of interviewees’ characteristics by nationality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	314
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	317

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 344
Keywords: Refugee and Migration Studies; Gender Studies and Sexuality; Mobility Studies; History: 20th Century to Present

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Published: November 1, 2007
ISBN: 9780857453662