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Soviet Signoras
- Personal and Collective Transformations in Eastern European Migration
Engelsk Paperback
Soviet Signoras
- Personal and Collective Transformations in Eastern European Migration
Engelsk Paperback

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Across the Western world, the air is filled with talk of immigration. The changes brought by immigration have triggered a renewed fervor for isolationism able to shutter political traditions and party systems. So often absent from these conversations on migration are however the actual stories and experiences of the migrants themselves. In fact, migration does not simply transport people. It also changes them deeply. Enter Martina Cvajner's Soviet Signoras, a far-reaching ethnographic study of two decades in the lives of women who migrated to northern Italy from several former Soviet republics. Cvajner details the personal and collective changes brought about by the experience of migration for these women: from the first hours arriving in a new country with no friends, relatives, or existing support networks, to later remaking themselves for their new environment. In response to their traumatic displacement, the women of Soviet Signoras--nearly all of whom found work in their new Western homes as elder care givers--refashioned themselves in highly sexualized, materialistic, and intentionally conspicuous ways. Cvajner's focus on overt sexuality and materialism is far from sensationalist, though. By zeroing in on these elements of personal identity, she reveals previously unexplored sides of the social psychology of migration, coloring our contemporary discussion with complex shades of humanity.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780226662398
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022666239X
Udg. Dato:
22 okt 2019
Længde:
16mm
Bredde:
227mm
Højde:
152mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
22 okt 2019
Forfatter(e):
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