Women Migrants From East to West : : Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe / / ed. by uisa, Ioanna Laliotou, Enrica Capussotti, Dawn Lyon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Alexandrova, Nadejda,; Braidotti, Rosi,; Capussotti, Enrica,; Conradsen, Inger Marie,; Hortobagyi, Anna,; Kronborg, Annette,; Laliotou, Ioanna,; Lyon, Dawn,; Nikolchina, Miglena,; Passerini, Luisa,; Petersen, Hanne,; Peto, Andrea,; Vonk, Esther,
• HerausgeberIn: Capussotti, Enrica,; Laliotou, Ioanna,; Lyon, Dawn,; uisa, ,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

Based on the oral histories of eighty migrant women and thirty additional interviews with ‘native’ women in the ‘receiving’ countries, this volume 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. It 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. Cover image: Painting by Carla Accardi. Reproduced with the kind permission of Luca Barsi of the Galleria Accademia, Via Accademia Albertina 3/e, 10123 Torino.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Editors’ Introduction -- Part I Subjectivity, Mobility and Gender in Europe -- Chapter 1 On Becoming Europeans -- Chapter 2 ‘I want to see the world’: Mobility and Subjectivity in the European Context -- Chapter 3 Transformations of Legal Subjectivity in Europe: From the Subjection of Women to Privileged Subjects -- Intermezzo ‘A Dance through Life’: Narratives of Migrant Women -- 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 -- Chapter 5 ‘My hobby is people’: Migration and Communication in the Light of Late Totalitarianism -- Chapter 6 Migrant Women in Work -- Chapter 7 The Topos of Love in the Life-stories of Migrant Women -- Chapter 8 Food-talk: Markers of Identity and Imaginary Belongings -- Intermezzo Relationships in the Making: Accounts of Native Women -- 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 -- Chapter 10 Modernity versus Backwardness: Italian Women’s Perceptions of Self and Other -- Chapter 11 Moral and Cultural Boundaries in Representations of Migrants: Italy and the Netherlands in Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 12 Changing Matrimonial Law in the Image of Immigration Law -- Intermezzo In Transit: Space, People, Identities -- Conclusions Gender, Subjectivity, Europe: A Constellation for the Future -- Appendix 1 Summary of individual interviewees -- Appendix 2 Summary of interviewees’ characteristics by nationality -- Notes on Contributors -- Index