书目名称 | Women and Borders in the Mediterranean |
副标题 | The Wretched of the |
编辑 | Camille Schmoll |
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概述 | Uses the situation of women as a starting point to explore the issue of migration in the Mediterranean.Debunks several misconceptions about the situation and condition of women who undertake migration |
丛书名称 | Mobility & Politics |
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描述 | This book offers a history of migration in the Mediterranean written about and from the perspective of women. It gives a complex picture of individual journeys of migrant women, and in a radical departure from the miserabilist or culturalist approach through which women are usually viewed, the book argues for a politically and socially aware, activist feminism that is attuned to what border-obsessed migration policies actually do to women.The research presented in this book is based on multi-sited fieldwork that led the author to closely follow migration survivors. The book depicts the journey of women as they experience brutal separations, have to make heart-wrenching decisions and end up wandering from one place to another, but also as they make acquaintances and find new opportunities. The first-person accounts collected here demonstrate that the reasons behind these women’s decision to leave are anything but simple and linear: they combine various forms of persecution and oppression, a desire for autonomy and a yearning for new horizons, as well as changes in gender relations in their countries of origin..The book further explores the daily lives of women in reception centres, |
出版日期 | Book 2024 |
关键词 | forced migration in Europe; migrant journeys; gender and migration; critical migration studies; border s |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45097-6 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-45099-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-45097-6Series ISSN 2731-3867 Series E-ISSN 2731-3875 |
issn_series | 2731-3867 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |