1st Edition
Gender and Migration in Southern Europe Women on the Move
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
274 Pages
by
Routledge
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The important role women play in the process of migration to the Western bloc - and in particular to Southern Europe where they often find jobs in the domestic service, tourist or sex industries - has been increasingly recognized. This timely book provides essential new insights into the forms of migration and the impact of gender relations on the migration and accommodation process, and also... Read more
Acknowledgements, List of contributors, 1 Introduction: Women on the Move in Southern Europe, 2 Metaphors of Home: Gendering New Migrations to southern Europe, 3 Filipino and Albanian Women Migrant Workers in Greece: Multiple Layers of Oppression, 4 The Making of Periphractic Spaces: The Case of Albanian Undocumented Female Migrants in the Sex Industry of Athens, 5 Female Migrants in Italy: Coping in a Country of New Migration, 6 Migrant Women in Italy: National Trends and Local Perspectives, 7 Organizing Domestic Workers in Italy: The Challenge of Gender, Class and Ethnicity, 8 Female Birds of Passage: Leaving and Settling in Spain, 9 The Position and Status of Migrant Women in Spain, 10 Trading Intimacy for Liberty: British Women on the Costa del Sol, Index
Biography
Floya Anthias University of Greenwich Gabriella Lazaridis University of Dundee
