From Slovenia to Egypt : : Aleksandrinke's trans-mediterranean domestic workers' migration and national imagination / / Mirjam Milharcic Hladnik (ed.).

• Superior document: Transkulturelle Perspektiven ; v.13
• TeilnehmendeR: Milharčič-Hladnik, Mirjam,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, [Germany] : : V & R unipress,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Transkulturelle Perspektiven
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.) :; illustrations, maps
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Aleksandrinstvo, the women migration from a small European country to prosperous Egypt (1870–1950) brought with it dramatic changes in the role of women and men, in the value placed on women’s work within the traditional economy and within the internal dynamics of their society of origin, both at the level of families and the wider community as well as in the relationships between generations. This emigration had a profound impact on women’s self-esteem and at the same time on the public image of migrants as non-conventional female characters whose reputation fluctuated between silent thankful adoration and loud moral condemnation. It is thus not surprising that the phenomenon was, for half a century, buried under a thick blanket of denial and traumatic memories, which this book is trying to finally remove. Aleksandrinstvo, the women migration from a small European country to prosperous Egypt (1870–1950) brought with it dramatic changes in the role of women and men, in the value placed on women’s work within the traditional economy and within the internal dynamics of their society of origin, both at the level of families and the wider community as well as in the relationships between generations. This emigration had a profound impact on women’s self-esteem and at the same time on the public image of migrants as non-conventional female characters whose reputation fluctuated between silent thankful adoration and loud moral condemnation. It is thus not surprising that the phenomenon was, for half a century, buried under a thick blanket of denial and traumatic memories, which this book is trying to finally remove.

Aleksandrinstvo, the women migration from a small European country to prosperous Egypt (1870-1950) brought with it dramatic changes in the role of women and men, in the value placed on women’s work within the traditional economy and within the internal dynamics of their society of origin, both at the level of families and the wider community as well as in the relationships between generations. This emigration had a profound impact on women’s self-esteem and at the same time on the public image of migrants as non-conventional female characters whose reputation fluctuated between silent thankful adoration and loud moral condemnation. It is thus not surprising that the phenomenon was, for half a century, buried under a thick blanket of denial and traumatic memories, which this book is trying to finally remove.

Table of Contents

I. Aleksandrinke -- 1. Trans-Mediterranean Women Domestic Workers: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives -- 2. Labour Migration and Female Breadwinners -- 3. Migration Movements in Goriska in the Time of Aleksandrinke -- 4. A Drop in the Sea of Foreign Workers in Egypt -- 5. Personal Narratives of Lives in Egypt and at Home -- III. Migration and National Imagination: III. Migration and National Imaginationen Who Chose Caregiving Careers in a Global Perspective: Mothers of the Nation or Agents in Their Own Lives?pp 117-130; 14 pagesDownload PDF Read Online Show SubsectionsKatja Mihurko Poniz: 7. Representations and Mythologisations of Aleksandrinke in Slovenian Literaturepp 131-156; 26 pagesDownload PDF Read Online Show SubsectionsMarina Lukič Hacin: 8. Women Migrants and Gender Relations: Patriarchy in the Time of Aleksandrinkepp 157-172; 16 pagesDownload PDF Read Online Show SubsectionsJernej Mlekuz: 9. The Newspaper Images of Aleksandrinke and the National Imaginationpp 173-192; 20 pagesDownload PDF Read Online Show SubsectionsIV. Comparative Perspective over Space and Timepp 193-194; 2 pagesDownload PDF Read OnlineSylvia Hahn: 10. Migration and Career Patterns of Female Domestic Servantspp 195-206; 12 pagesDownload PDF Read Online Show SubsectionsFrancesca Biancani: 11. Globalisation, Migration, and Female Labour in Cosmopolitan Egyptpp 207-228; 22 pagesDownload PDF Read Online Show SubsectionsMajda Hrzenjak: 12. Slovenian Domestic Workers in Global Care Economiespp 229-248; 20 pagesDownload PDF Read Online Show SubsectionsBibliographypp 249-266; 18 pagesDownload PDF Read Online Show SubsectionsIndexpp 267-270; 4 pages