Research Catalog

Title

Women migrants from East to West : gender, mobility and belonging in contemporary Europe / edited by Luisa Passerini [and others].

Publication

New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

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Additional Authors

Passerini, Luisa.

Description

viii, 335 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Europe > Social conditions
• East Europeans > Europe, Western > Social conditions
• Europe > Emigration and immigration
• Women immigrants > Europe > Social conditions

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. I. Subjectivity, Mobility and Gender in Europe -- Ch. 1. On Becoming Europeans / Rosi Braidotti -- Ch. 2. 'I want to see the world': Mobility and Subjectivity in the European Context / Ioanna Laliotou -- Ch. 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 -- Pt. II. Subjectivity in Motion: Analysing the Lives of Migrant Women -- Ch. 4. Imaginary Geographies: Border-places and 'Home' in the Narratives of Migrant Women / Nadejda Alexandrova and Dawn Lyon -- Ch. 5. 'My hobby is people': Migration and Communication in the Light of Late Totalitarianism / Miglena Nikolchina -- Ch. 6. Migrant Women in Work / Enrica Capussotti, Ioanna Laliotou and Dawn Lyon -- Ch. 7. The Topos of Love in the Life-stories of Migrant Women / Nadejda Alexandrova -- Ch. 8. Food-talk: Markers of Identity and Imaginary Belongings / Andrea Peto -- Intermezzo: Relationships in the Making: Accounts of Native Women / Enrica Capussotti and Esther Vonk -- Pt. III. Processes of Identification: Inclusion and Exclusion of Migrant Women -- Ch. 9. Migration, Integration and Emancipation: Women's Positioning in the Debate in the Netherlands / Esther Vonk -- Ch. 10. Modernity versus Backwardness: Italian Women's Perceptions of Self and Other / Enrica Capussotti -- Ch. 11. Moral and Cultural Boundaries in Representations of Migrants: Italy and the Netherlands in Comparative Perspective / Dawn Lyon -- Ch. 12. Changing Matrimonial Law in the Image of Immigration Law / Inger Marie Conradsen and Annette Kronborg -- Intermezzo: In Transit: Space, People, Identities / Andrea Peto -- Conclusions: Gender, Subjectivity, Europe: A Constellation for the Future / Luisa Passerini -- App. 1. Summary of individual interviewees -- App. 2. Summary of interviewees' characteristics by nationality.

ISBN

• 9781845452773 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 1845452771 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007012585

OCLC

• ocn122701455
• 122701455
• SCSB-5382773

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries