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Introduction This chapter analyses politics, values, and areas of inclusionary/exclusionary practices in reproductive healthcare experienced by Polish migrant women in a few European destinations. The post-2004 Polish migration to EU countries has to a large extent transformed from flexible, temporal sojourns to long-term or permanent settlement 1 (White 2011 , Okólski 2012 , Slany et al. 2018 ). This process often coincides with and is reinforced by starting a family in
* All participants’ names are pseudonyms Ten semi-structured interviews with Italian females were part of the project ‘Morality, Mobility and Migration: Comparing Cultures of Care in Norway and Italy’ (2012–2016). The interviewees were all Italian women who had come to Norway to study, work and/or raise a family in the period between 2008 and 2013. Five became mothers after moving to Norway, and the data presented here come from interviews with them
This book is a collection of chapters by anthropologists and other social scientists concerned with gendered labour, care, intimacy, and sexuality, in relation to mobility and the hardening of borders in Europe. After a brief introduction outlining the themes and individual contributions, the book begins with a chapter focusing on the parallels between regulation of geo-political and material borders separating nation states and other areas, and ideological and classificatory boundaries categorising kinds of people and bodies. This framing chapter is followed by three sections. The first comprises ethnographic and phenomenological case studies of gendered migration experience, in the context of intimate relations of care and marriage. The second section continues with an continuous with an ethnographic emphasis, but focuses more on studies of regulation, agency, and activism in contexts of migration, labour, and/or (biological) reproduction and how migrants navigate social services in their destination countries. The final section shifts emphasis more in the direction of conceptual discussion and contains analyses of state and church regulation of bodies, sexualities, reproduction and knowledge practices, and of different regimes of care. Overall, a major aim of the book is to illuminate processes of inclusion and exclusion generated by and around borders and boundaries, and the processes by which they are reproduced and/or contested.
Introduction For most non-EU citizens, marriage migration establishes one of the few possibilities to move to countries within the European Union. Unlike other migration options, in which the citizenship of the migrant and/or the needs of the local labour market are taken as the main measurement for the right to enter the EU and to achieve residency rights within the destination country, the right to family migration is – among other things – bound to the individual membership of the sponsor in society – in legal as well as
youth’ to an ‘old Italian’ man without any attempt to marry him, or would that just classify as a good care work? And would a Ukrainian newspaper dare to write about Maria's Italian lover if he was not to become her husband? Based on interviews and ethnographic research with Ukrainian female domestic workers in Italy, this chapter looks into an often taboo topic – intimate, romantic, and sexual relations formed in the course of migration by women migrating alone. These relations are often seen as a side product of ‘proper care
minds would be impossible, and with that, all life together.’ Cross-border migration offers an interesting challenge to these naturalised views of shared time structures. Due to transnationalism, nostalgia and cultural difference, migrants exist both according to local temporal norms and home-country timescapes. In this simultaneity, time is not linear but layered, with competing, sometimes contradictory strains, imaging home while living in the new rhythms of the receiving state. This is a normal result of transnationalism and common to all immigrants (Cwerner 2001
Introduction In this chapter, we will analyse how specific transnational care practices are reflected in the personal life trajectories of women with migration and refugee experience in a postsocialist context in the contemporary Czech Republic. Our aim is to investigate the influence of gendered norms and expectations on women's transnational care practices and their feelings of care obligation, and to explore specific coping strategies for dealing with practical and emotional challenges arising from contradictory
6 New pasts, presents and futures: time and space in family migrant networks between Kosovo and western Europe Carolin Leutloff-Grandits For many families in Kosovo, migration is an integral part of life. This is true even if they do not themselves migrate but, rather, seem ‘stuck’ in a village such as the one in south Kosovo where I conducted fieldwork between 2011 and 2013.1 In fact, in this village, and throughout almost all of Kosovo, there is what one might term a ‘culture’ of migration. Every person has close family members who are living or have lived
century extended beyond the limits and fences that the colonising enterprise of the late nineteenth century imposed on the reservations. In other words, it reached beyond the spaces of the community, its gillatuwe , its rivers and hills. With the land exhausted, and the remnants of the old territory overpopulated, migration became the new feature from 1900 to the present. Comings and goings drew new cartographies that, on one hand, asserted the differences between the countryside and the city, and on the other
east–west course each evening for years after their ancient rookery had been destroyed. In this regard the greatest proof that the impulse to flight was internal was the phenomenon of migration, the seasonal evacuation of the coppices and lakes, the seasonal resurrection of song, so often prefigured in the sighting of the first spring swallow insouciantly skimming the water. Whether incubated on the cricket field as projectile probabilities or through days of binocular-assisted projections of flight into the clearing