Gender and migration in Southern Europe : women on the move / edited by Floya Anthias and Gabriella Lazaridis.

The important role women play in the process of migration to the Western bloc -- and in particular to Southern Europe where they often find jobs in the domestic service, tourist or sex industries -- has been increasingly recognized. This timely book provides essential new insights into the forms of...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Anthias, Floya, 1945- (Editor), Lazaridis, Gabriella (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Series:Mediterranea series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements, List of contributors, 1. Introduction: Women on the Move in Southern Europe, 2. Metaphors of Home: Gendering New Migrations to Southern Europe, 3. Filipino and Albanian Women Migrant Workers in Greece: Multiple Layers of Oppression, 4. The Making of Periphractic Spaces: The Case of Albanian Undocumented Female Migrants in the Sex Industry of Athens, 5. Female Migrants in Italy: Coping in a Country of New Migration, 6. Migrant Women in Italy: National Trends and Local Perspectives, 7. Organizing Domestic Workers in Italy: The Challenge of Gender, Class and Ethnicity, 8. Female Birds of Passage: Leaving and Settling in Spain, 9. The Position and Status of Migrant Women in Spain, 10. Trading Intimacy for Liberty: British Women on the Costa del Sol, Index.