Worker-Mothers on the Margins of Europe

Gender and Migration between Moldova and Istanbul

Nonfiction, History, Asian, Russia, Middle East, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology
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Author: Leyla J. Keough ISBN: 9780253021014
Publisher: Indiana University Press Publication: February 1, 2016
Imprint: Indiana University Press Language: English
Author: Leyla J. Keough
ISBN: 9780253021014
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication: February 1, 2016
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Language: English

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 that drive migration elsewhere. Keough puts scholarship on gender and migration into dialogue with postsocialist studies and offers a critical assessment of international anti-trafficking efforts.

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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 that drive migration elsewhere. Keough puts scholarship on gender and migration into dialogue with postsocialist studies and offers a critical assessment of international anti-trafficking efforts.

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