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Women migrants from East to West: gender, mobility and belonging in contemporary Europe

Luisa Passerini 2010 © Berghahn Books
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  • 9781845452780 (paper)
  • 9780857453662 (ebook)
  • 9781845452773 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Gender Studies
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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements (page vii)
  • Editors' Introduction (page 1)
  • Part I: Subjectivity, Mobility and Gender in Europe
    • Chapter 1 On Becoming Europeans (Rosi Braidotti, page 23)
    • Chapter 2 'I want to see the world': Mobility and Subjectivity in the European Context (Ioanna Laliotou, page 45)
    • Chapter 3 Transformations of Legal Subjectivity in Europe: From the Subjection of Women to Privileged Subjects (Hanne Petersen, page 68)
    • Intermezzo 'A Dance through Life': Narratives of Migrant Women (Nadejda Alexandrova and Anna Hortobagyi, page 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, page 95)
    • Chapter 5 'My hobby is people': Migration and Communication in the Light of Late Totalitarianism (Miglena Nikolchina, page 111)
    • Chapter 6 Migrant Women in Work (Enrica Capussotti, Ioanna Laliotou and Dawn Lyon, page 122)
    • Chapter 7 The Topos of Love in the Life-stories of Migrant Women (Nadejda Alexandrova, page 138)
    • Chapter 8 Food-talk: Markers of Identity and Imaginary Belongings (Andrea Pető, page 152)
    • Intermezzo Relationships in the Making: Accounts of Native Women (Enrica Capussotti and Esther Vonk, page 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, page 177)
    • Chapter 10 Modernity versus Backwardness: Italian Women's Perceptions of Self and Other (Enrica Capussotti, page 195)
    • Chapter 11 Moral and Cultural Boundaries in Representations of Migrants: Italy and the Netherlands in Comparative Perspective (Dawn Lyon, page 212)
    • Chapter 12 Changing Matrimonial Law in the Image of Immigration Law (Inger Marie Conradsen and Annette Kronborg, page 228)
    • Intermezzo In Transit: Space, People, Identities (Andrea Pető, page 243)
    • Conclusions Gender, Subjectivity, Europe: A Constellation for the Future (Luisa Passerini, page 251)
  • Appendix 1: Summary of individual interviewees (page 275)
  • Appendix 2: Summary of interviewees' characteristics by nationality (page 304)
  • Notes on Contributors (page 314)
  • Index (page 317)
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OH 36.2 (Autumn 2008): 108-110 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40179998
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