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Women, Migration and the Exchange of Knowledge from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century: Connecting Europe, Reintegrating the East

Women, Migration and the Exchange of Knowledge from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century: Connecting Europe, Reintegrating the East

Roman, Nicoleta
Zucca Micheletto, Beatrice

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Gender and Migration

General European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 3031739817
ISBN13: 9783031739811
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Mar 22 2025
Pages: 500
Weight: 1.72
Height: 1.13 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book examines female migration between Eastern and Western Europe from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Bringing together contributions from scholars working in diverse disciplines, the book focuses on the social, economic, and cultural exchanges between migrants and the inhabitants of their host countries, arguing that women were central to these interactions due to their commercial, artisanal, and intellectual skills. The chapters shed light on the various roles and professions that women undertook when migrating across Europe, providing case studies of governesses, domestic servants and caregivers, traders and merchants, doctors and scholars, and emphasising how these roles shaped their identities. The authors illustrate how social mobility was engendered by skilled migration and academic mobility, whilst also illuminating the prejudices and challenges that faced women as they attempted to integrate into their new host societies alongside their families. Taking a comparative approach to explore the experiences of migrants across a range of countries in Europe, and over a vast period from the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Russian Empires up until today, this collection provides insights into the long history of migration between Eastern and Western Europe.

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