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The traffic in women's work : East European migration and the making of Europe

By Anca , Parvulescu

Book information

Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780226118413, 022611841X, 9781306709576, 1306709571
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1224587 bytes)
Pages
196\196
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Eastern -- Social conditions. Human trafficking --Eastern.Women immigrants -- Abuse of -- European Union cou

Description

"Welcome to the European family!" When East European countries joined the European Union under this banner after 1989, they agreed to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and persons. In this book, Anca Parvulescu analyzes an important niche in this imagined European kinship: the traffic in women, or the circulation of East European women in West Europe in marriage and as domestic servants, nannies, personal attendants, and entertainers. Analyzing film, national policies, and an impressive range of work by theorists from Giorgio Agamben to Judith Butler, she develops a critical lens. Read more... Abstract: "Welcome to the European family!" When East European countries joined the European Union under this banner after 1989, they agreed to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and persons. In this book, the author analyzes an important niche in this imagined European kinship: the traffic in women. Read more...

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