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Sex, Love, and Migration: Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic

Sex, Love, and Migration: Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic

Bloch, Alexia
Tsylinskii, Vadim

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary Western Rusistika

Immigration & RefugeesSocial MovementsWomen's Studies

ISBN13: 9798887194646
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: Feb 6 2024
Pages: 370
Weight: 1.46
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: Russian
ENG: Sex, Love, and Migration complicates a narrative of women's exploitation as a feature of migration in the twenty-first century, to argue that women's mobility is marked not only by risks but also by personal and social transformation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork spanning a decade (2002-2011), Alexia Bloch shows how women moving between the former Soviet Union and Turkey forged new forms of relationships in their households in Moldova, Ukraine, and Russia, but also in Istanbul, where they often worked for years on end. The lives and aspirations of post-Soviet migrant women employed in three spheres in Istanbul--sex work, the garment trade, and domestic work--are featured, challenging us to decouple images of women on the move from simple assumptions about danger, victimization, and trafficking.


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