Transnational families, migration, and gender : Moroccan and Filipino women in Bologna and Barcelona /

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 famili...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zontini, Elisabetta
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, c2010.
Series:New directions in anthropology ; v. 30
Subjects:
Families > Italy > Bologna.
Families > Spain > Barcelona.
Filipinos > Italy > Bologna > Social conditions.
Filipinos > Spain > Barcelona > Social conditions.
Moroccans > Italy > Bologna > Social conditions.
Moroccans > Spain > Barcelona > Social conditions.
Women immigrants > Europe, Southern > Case studies.
Women immigrants > Italy > Bologna.
Women immigrants > Spain > Barcelona.
Europe, Southern > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects > Case studies.
Table of 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.

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