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This book is a collection of articles by anthropologists and social
scientists concerned with gendered labour, care, intimacy and
sexuality, in relation to mobility and the hardening of borders in
Europe. Interrogating the relation between physical, geopolitical
borders and ideological, conceptual boundaries, it offers a range
of vivid and original ethnographic case studies that will capture
the imagination of anyone interested in gendered migration,
policies of inclusion and exclusion, and regulation of reproduction
and intimacy. The book presents ethnographic and phenomenological
discussions of people’s changing lives as they cross borders, how
people transgress and reshape moral boundaries of proper gender and
kinship behaviour, and moral economies of intimacy and sexuality.
It also focuses on migrants’ navigation of social and financial
services in their destination countries, putting questions about
rights and limitations on citizenship at the core. -- .
Focusing on places, objects, bodies, narratives, and ritual spaces
where religion may be found or inscribed, the authors reveal the
role of religion in contesting rights to places, to knowledge and
to property, as well as access to resources. Through analyses of
specific historical processes in terms of responses to
socio-economic and political change, the chapters consider
implicitly or explicitly the problematic relation between science
(including social sciences and anthropology in particular) and
religion, and how this connects to the new religious globalization
of the twenty-first century. Their ethnographies highlight the
embodiment of religion and its location in landscapes, built spaces
and religious sites which may be contested, physically or
ideologically, or encased in memory and often in silence. Taken
together, they show the importance of religion as a resource to the
believers: a source of solace, spiritual comfort, and self-willed
submission.
This book is a collection of articles by anthropologists and social
scientists concerned with gendered labour, care, intimacy and
sexuality, in relation to mobility and the hardening of borders in
Europe. Interrogating the relation between physical, geopolitical
borders and ideological, conceptual boundaries, this book offers a
range of vivid and original ethnographic case studies that will
capture the imagination of anyone interested in gendered migration,
policies of inclusion and exclusion, and regulation of reproduction
and intimacy. The first part of the book presents ethnographic and
phenomenological discussions of people's changing lives as they
cross borders, how people shift, transgress and reshape moral
boundaries of proper gender and kinship behaviour, and moral
economies of intimacy and sexuality. In the second section, the
focus turns to migrants' navigation of social and financial
services in their destination countries, putting questions about
rights and limitations on citizenship at the core. The final part
of the book scrutinises policy formation at the level of state,
examining the ways that certain domains become politicised and
disputed at different historical junctures, while others are left
outside of the political. -- .
This book explores connections between poverty and migration in the
context of the expansion of neoliberalism in Europe. The last
decade has witnessed a massive movement of people in response to
rising inequalities as a result of political changes and economic
reforms implemented across the continent. As people seek new
opportunities, movement itself becomes part of the process of
generating new inequalities. The chapters in this volume provide
vivid examples of local participation in such global processes.
This book focuses on survival strategies developed at local levels
in response to changing cultural, political and economic structures
in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. An interdisciplinary
approach is adopted as the contributors engage with questions of
gender, ethnicity, migration, nationalism, employment and labour
patterns and changing family structures.
The disintegration of Eastern Europe and the collapse of the Soviet
Union in 1989 marked the beginning of what was hailed both East and
West as a period of tranformation to liberal democracy. Yet in the
years that have followed, the peoples of the vast region have found
themselves dealing with new tensions, insecurities and the chaos of
the new order. This wide ranging study comprises of case studies
drawn from various countries of the former socialist world.
Centring around the theme of survival strategies developed in
response to changing cultural, political and economic structures,
the contributors consider the problems implicit in these changing
economies at all levels, from household strategy to state and
policy formation. It covers a huge geographical area and explores
many other themes such as: gender; ethnicity; migration; employment
and labour patterns; changing family structures; and ideas of
nationalism. By emphasizing local level experience, regional
difference and the use actors make of local knowledge in developing
survival strategies, this study argues that local level research is
essential to an understanding of the transformations taking place.
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