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Transnational Families, Migration and Gender: Moroccan and Filipino Women in Bologna and Barcelona

Transnational Families, Migration and Gender: Moroccan and Filipino Women in Bologna and Barcelona

Zontini, Elisabetta

Hardcover

Series: New Directions in Anthropology, Book 30

German HistoryImmigration & RefugeesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1845456181
ISBN13: 9781845456184
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Feb 1 2010
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

By linking the experiences of immigrant families with the increased reliance on cheap and flexible workers for care and domestic work in Southern Europe, this study documents the lived experiences of neglected actors of globalization - migrant women - as well as the transformations of Western families more generally. However, while describing in detail the structural and cultural contexts within which these women have to operate, the book questions dominant paradigms about women as passive victims of patriarchal structures and brings out instead their agency and the creative ways in which they take control of their lives in often difficult circumstances. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, the author offers a valuable dual comparison between two Southern European countries on the one hand and between two migrant groups, one Christian and one Muslim, on the other, thus bringing to light unique detailed data on migration decision-making, settlement and on the multiple ways in which different women cope with the consequences of their transnational lives.

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