By linking the experiences of immigrant families with the increased
reliance on cheap and flexible workers for care and domestic work
in Southern Europe, this study documents the lived experiences of
neglected actors of globalization - migrant women - as well as the
transformations of Western families more generally. However, while
describing in detail the structural and cultural contexts within
which these women have to operate, the book questions dominant
paradigms about women as passive victims of patriarchal structures
and brings out instead their agency and the creative ways in which
they take control of their lives in often difficult circumstances.
Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, the
author offers a valuable dual comparison between two Southern
European countries on the one hand and between two migrant groups,
one Christian and one Muslim, on the other, thus bringing to light
unique detailed data on migration decision-making, settlement and
on the multiple ways in which different women cope with the
consequences of their transnational lives.
Elisabetta Zontini was a Visiting Fellow at the International
Gender Studies Centre at Oxford University and a Research Fellow in
the Families & Social Capital ESRC Research Group at London
South Bank University. She has published a number of ethnographic
articles and book chapters on gender and migration in Southern
Europe and is now Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Sociology
and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham.
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