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Worker-Mothers on the Margins of Europe: Gender and Migration between Moldova and Istanbul
Leyla J. Keough
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Description for Worker-Mothers on the Margins of Europe: Gender and Migration between Moldova and Istanbul
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Following Moldovan women who commute for six to twelve months at a time to work as domestics in Istanbul, Worker-Mothers on the Margins of Europe explores the world of undocumented migrants from a postsocialist state. Leyla J. Keough examines the gendered moral economies that shape the perspectives of the migrants, their employers in Turkey, their communities in Moldova, and the International Organization for Migration. She finds that their socialist past continues to color how the women view their labor and their roles within their families, even as they are affected by the same shifts in the global economy ... Read more
Following Moldovan women who commute for six to twelve months at a time to work as domestics in Istanbul, Worker-Mothers on the Margins of Europe explores the world of undocumented migrants from a postsocialist state. Leyla J. Keough examines the gendered moral economies that shape the perspectives of the migrants, their employers in Turkey, their communities in Moldova, and the International Organization for Migration. She finds that their socialist past continues to color how the women view their labor and their roles within their families, even as they are affected by the same shifts in the global economy ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253020888
SKU
V9780253020888
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About Leyla J. Keough
Leyla J. Keough is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies at Hampshire College and a former Wilson Center research scholar.
Reviews for Worker-Mothers on the Margins of Europe: Gender and Migration between Moldova and Istanbul
Anyone interested in the phenomenon of migration, particularly the gender dynamics of international migration and the politics of 'trafficking' in an era of globalization, will find this book an invaluable contribution... This is ethnography at its best. -Kristen Ghodsee, Bowdoin College