| Description |
1 online resource (268 pages) : maps |
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| Series |
New directions in anthropology ; v. 30
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New directions in anthropology ; v. 30.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-250) and index. |
| Contents |
Transnational Families, Migration and Gender; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Maps; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Transnational Migration, Gender and Settlement; Chapter 3: Immigration, Work and Family in Bologna; Chapter 4: Immigration, Work and Family in Barcelona; Chapter 5: Comparative Perspectives on Female Migration and Settlement in Southern Europe; Chapter 6: Conclusions; Bibliography; Index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women immigrants -- Europe, Southern -- Case studies.
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Europe, Southern -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
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Filipinos -- Italy -- Bologna -- Social conditions.
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Moroccans -- Italy -- Bologna -- Social conditions.
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Filipinos -- Spain -- Barcelona -- Social conditions.
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Moroccans -- Spain -- Barcelona -- Social conditions.
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Women immigrants -- Italy -- Bologna.
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Women immigrants -- Spain -- Barcelona.
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Families -- Italy -- Bologna.
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Families -- Spain -- Barcelona.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. |
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. |
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Families. |
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Filipinos -- Social conditions. |
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Moroccans -- Social conditions. |
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Women immigrants. |
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Southern Europe. |
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Italy -- Bologna. |
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Spain -- Barcelona. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Added Title |
Moroccan and Filipino women in Bologna and Barcelona |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Zontini, Elisabetta. Transnational families, migration and gender. New York : Berghahn Books, 2010 9781845456184 (DLC) 2009045271 (OCoLC)316825706 |
| ISBN |
9781845458058 (electronic bk.) |
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1845458052 (electronic bk.) |
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1845456181 |
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9781845456184 |
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9781845456184 (print) |
| Standard No. |
9786612627149 |
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