Overview
- Provides lived experiences of migrant women and their strategies in Europe
- Comparative perspective on labour markets, migration policies, welfare regimes and Integration policies
- The uses of the concept of integration in public and policy discourse and migration research
- Focus on migrant women in different labour markets and particularly as domestic workers, sex workers and victims of trafficking
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Migration (IPMI, volume 4)
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About this book
This timely and innovative book analyses the lives of new female migrants in the EU with a focus on the labour market, domestic work, care work and prostitution in particular. It provides a comparative analysis embracing eleven European countries from Northern (UK, Germany, Sweden, France), Southern (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus) and Eastern Europe (Poland, Slovenia), i.e. old and new immigration countries as well as old and new market economies. It maps labour market trends, welfare policies, migration laws, patterns of employment, and the working and social conditions of female migrants in different sectors of the labour market, formal and informal. It is particularly concerned with the strategies women use to counter the disadvantages they face. It analyses the ways in which gender hierarchies are intertwined with other social relations of power, providing a gendered and intersectional perspective, drawing on the biographies of migrant women. The book highlights policy relevant issues and tries to uncover some of the contradictory assumptions relating to integration which it treats as a highly normative and problematic concept. It reframes integration in terms of greater equalisation and democratisation (entailed in the parameters of access, participation and belonging), pointing to its transnational and intersectional dimensions.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Paradoxes of Integration: Female Migrants in Europe
Editors: Floya Anthias, Maria Kontos, Mirjana Morokvasic-Müller
Series Title: International Perspectives on Migration
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4842-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4841-5Published: 01 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9642-3Published: 14 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4842-2Published: 02 November 2012
Series ISSN: 2214-9805
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9813
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 204
Topics: Migration, Gender Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Comparative Politics, Sociology, general