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Transnational families, migration, and gender : Moroccan and Filipino women in Bologna and Barcelona / by Elisabetta Zontini.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zontini, Elisabetta.
- Series:
- New directions in anthropology ; v. 30.
- New directions in anthropology ; v. 30
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women immigrants--Europe, Southern--Case studies.
- Women immigrants.
- Filipinos--Italy--Bologna--Social conditions.
- Filipinos.
- Moroccans--Italy--Bologna--Social conditions.
- Moroccans.
- Filipinos--Spain--Barcelona--Social conditions.
- Moroccans--Spain--Barcelona--Social conditions.
- Women immigrants--Italy--Bologna.
- Women immigrants--Spain--Barcelona.
- Families--Italy--Bologna.
- Families.
- Families--Spain--Barcelona.
- Europe, Southern--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects--Case studies.
- Europe, Southern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Other Title:
- Moroccan and Filipino women in Bologna and Barcelona
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Southern Europe and the new immigrations
- Transnational migration, gender, and settlement : towards an understanding of the southern European case
- Immigration, work, and family in Bologna
- Immigration, work, and family in Barcelona
- Comparative perspectives on female migration and settlement in southern Europe.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-250) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612627149
- 9781282627147
- 1282627147
- 9781845458058
- 1845458052
- OCLC:
- 645102068
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