Women Migrants from East to West: Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe

by Luisa Passerini

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184545278X
• ISBN13: 9781845452780
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"