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Soviet signoras : personal and collective transformations in Eastern European migration
- Title
- Soviet signoras : personal and collective transformations in Eastern European migration / Martina Cvajner.
- Author
- Cvajner, Martina
- Publication
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- x, 265 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Across the Western world, the air is filled with talk of immigration. The changes brought by immigration have triggered a renewed fervor for isolationism able to shutter political traditions and party systems. So often absent from these conversations on migration are however the actual stories and experiences of the migrants themselves. In fact, migration does not simply transport people. It also changes them deeply. Enter Martina Cvajner's Soviet Signoras, a far-reaching ethnographic study of two decades in the lives of women who migrated to northern Italy from several former Soviet republics. Cvajner details the personal and collective changes brought about by the experience of migration for these women: from the first hours arriving in a new country with no friends, relatives, or existing support networks, to later remaking themselves for their new environment. In response to their traumatic displacement, the women of Soviet Signoras--nearly all of whom found work in their new Western homes as elder care givers--refashioned themselves in highly sexualized, materialistic, and intentionally conspicuous ways. Cvajner's focus on overt sexuality and materialism is far from sensationalist, though. By zeroing in on these elements of personal identity, she reveals previously unexplored sides of the social psychology of migration, coloring our contemporary discussion with complex shades of humanity."--
- Series Statement
- Fieldwork encounters and discoveries
- Uniform Title
- Fieldwork encounters and discoveries.
- Subjects
- Assimilation (Sociology)
- Women immigrants > Social conditions
- Women immigrants > Italy > Social conditions
- Soviet Union > Former Soviet republics
- Assimilation (Sociology) > Italy
- Former Soviet republics > Emigration and immigration
- Eastern Europe
- Europe, Eastern > Emigration and immigration
- Italy > Emigration and immigration
- Women foreign workers > Italy
- Emigration and immigration
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Contents
- A room of one's own: managing spaces, lives, and laws in residential care work -- Practicing abundance: immigrant women and the challenge of consumption -- Strong mothers, great lovers: sexuality in emigration -- Getting serious: courtship, love, and (maybe) marriage in emigration -- Proper, respectable places: the arduous construction of community institutions -- Conclusion: from the detritus of the Soviet Union into a new social world.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-1324
- ISBN
- 9780226662251
- 022666225X
- 9780226662398
- 022666239X
- LCCN
- 2019012199
- 40029616805
- OCLC
- 1089902240
- Author
- Cvajner, Martina, author.
- Title
- Soviet signoras : personal and collective transformations in Eastern European migration / Martina Cvajner.
- Publisher
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Fieldwork encounters and discoveriesFieldwork encounters and discoveries.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9780226662428
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029616805
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-1324