Women migrants from East to West : gender, mobility and belonging in contemporary Europe /: gender, mobility and belonging in contemporary Europe. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Luisa Passerini [and others].
• Other Names: Passerini, Luisa
• Contents: On becoming Europeans / Rosi Braidotti -- "I want to see the world" : mobility and subjectivity in the European context / Ioanna Laliotou --Transformations of legal subjectivity in Europe : from the subjection of women to privileged subjects / Hanne Petersen -- 'A dance through life' : narratives of migrant women / Nadejda Alexandrova and Anna Hortobagyi -- Imaginary geographies : border-places and 'home' in the narratives of migrant women / Nadejda Alexandrova and Dawn Lyon -- 'My hobby is people' : migration and communication in the light of late totalitarianism / Miglena Nikolchina -- Migrant women in work / Enrica Capussotti, Ioanna Laliotou and Dawn Lyon -- The topos of love in the life-stories of migrant women / Nadejda Alexandrova -- Food-talk : markers of identity and imaginary belongings / Andrea Peto· -- Relationships in the making : accounts of native women / Enrica Capussotti and Esther Vonk -- Migration, integration and emancipation : women's positioning in the debate in the Netherlands / Esther Vonk -- Modernity versus backwardness : Italian women's perceptions of self and other / Enrica Capussotti -- Moral and cultural boundaries in representations of migrants : Italy and the Netherlands in comparative perspective / Dawn Lyon -- Changing matrimonial law in the image of immigration law / Inger Marie Conradsen and Annette Kronborg -- In transit : space, people, identities / Andrea Peto· -- Gender, subjectivity, Europe : a constellation for the future / Luisa Passerini.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 335 pages)
• Subjects: 305.48/96902094; Women immigrants -- Europe -- Social conditions; East Europeans -- Europe, Western -- Social conditions; Immigrantes -- Europe -- Conditions sociales; Est-Européens -- Europe de l'Ouest -- Conditions sociales; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration; Europe -- Emigration and immigration; Europe -- Social conditions; Europe -- Émigration et immigration; Europe -- Conditions sociales; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857453662; 0857453661
• Related ISBNs: 9781845452773; 1845452771; 9781845452780; 184545278X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.