..".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
"Women Migrants from East to West" 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. The research is based on the oral
histories of eighty migrant women and thirty additional interviews
with 'native' women in the 'receiving' countries. The research
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.
Luisa Passerini is Professor of Cultural History at the
University of Turin, and External Professor of History of the
Twentieth Century at the European University Institute, Italy. She
is author of, amongst other books, Europe in Love, Love in Europe.
Imagination and Politics Between the Wars (London: I.B. Tauris and
New York: New York University Press, 1999).
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 Gioventu
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)."
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