Women migration, unexpected intimacies and emerging lovescapes. The experience of post-soviet migrant women pioneers in italy

This study aims at understanding how the perceptions about migrants have been created and transferred into daily life as a stigmatization by means of public perception, media and state law implementations. The focus would be briefly what kind of consequences these perceptions and stigmatization might lead. First section will examine the background of migration to Turkey briefly and make a summary of migration towards Turkey by 90s. Second section will briefly evaluate the preferential legal framework, which constitutes the base for official discourse differentiating the migrants and implementations of security forces that can be described as discriminatory. The third section deals with the impact of perceptions influential in both formation and reproduction of inclusive and exclusive practices towards migrant women. Additionally, impact of public perception in classifying the migrants and migratory processes would be dealt in this section.

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Interacting Legal Norms and Cross-Border Divorce: Stories of Filipino Migrant Women in the Netherlands

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v16i4.669 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 521-529

Author(s):

Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

The Philippines ◽

Migrant Women ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Legal Norms ◽

Global Migration ◽

Cross Border ◽

Filipino Women ◽

Transnational Social Spaces ◽

Filipino Migrants

The Philippines is one of only two states in the world in which absolute divorce remains largely impossible. Through its family laws, it regulates the marriage, family life and conjugal separation of its citizens, including its migrants abroad. To find out how these family laws interact with those in the receiving country of Filipino migrants and shape their lives, the present paper examines the case of Filipino women who experienced or are undergoing divorce in the Netherlands. Drawing from semi-structured interviews and an analysis of selected divorce stories, it unveils the intertwined institutions of marriage and of divorce, the constraints but also possibilities that interacting legal norms bring in the life of Filipino women, and the way these migrants navigate such norms within their transnational social spaces. These findings contribute interesting insights into cross-border divorces in the present age of global migration.

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Migrant and non-migrant fertility in Greece: Results based on the 2001 population census

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10.33182/ml.v4i2.217 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 147-158 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Georgia Verropoulou ◽

Christos Bagavos ◽

Cleon Tsimbos

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Groups ◽

Population Census ◽

Migrant Women ◽

Native Women ◽

Children Ever Born ◽

Using Data ◽

Of Greece ◽

Migrant Fertility

This paper examines fertility patterns and differentials between migrant and non-migrant women in Greece using data from the 2001 census on the reported numbers of children ever-born alive by citizenship. Special tabulations produced by the National Statistical Service of Greece are analysed and presented here. The analysis focuses on Greek, Albanian and Bulgarian women born over 1950-1970. Noticeable differences are observed. Despite the fact that Bulgarian women tend to have their first births earlier, their fertility levels are the lowest. Albanian women exhibit the highest fertility while levels for native women are somewhere in between. Nevertheless, the gap observed among the ethnic groups tends, broadly, to narrow over successive cohorts.

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Organizing women migrants: The Filipino and Cape Verdean women’s associations in Rome

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v4i1.208 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 29-39

Author(s):

Wendy Pojmann

Keyword(s):

Migrant Women ◽

Cape Verdean ◽

Women Migrants ◽

Informal Networks ◽

Women's Associations ◽

Women's Organizing ◽

Main Components ◽

Key Aspects ◽

Female Migrant ◽

Migrant Groups

Migrant women’s associations in Italy did not simply emerge from informal networks. The Filipino and Cape Verdean women’s associations in Rome are examples of the results of multiple factors that contributed to the strategy of self-organization established by migrant women with the intention of empowering themselves. An awareness of their unique position as women from mostly-female migrant groups, a lack of institutional bodies prepared to assist them, and the leadership of individual women were key aspects in the formation of the first migrant women’s associations in Rome. Gender and nationality were the main components of migrant women’s organizing in the first mostly-female migrant groups.

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Ukrainian migrant women’s social remittances: Contents and effects on families left behind

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10.33182/ml.v10i1.114 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 91-100 ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Francesca Alice Vianello

Keyword(s):

Social Impact ◽

Economic Education ◽

Cultural Resources ◽

Migrant Women ◽

Social Remittances ◽

Left Behind ◽

Ethnographic Studies ◽

Intergenerational Conflicts ◽

The Social ◽

The Right

This article examines different forms of Ukrainian migrant women’s social remittances, articulating some results of two ethnographic studies: one focused on the migration of Ukrainian women to Italy, and the other on the social impact of emigration in Ukraine. First, the paper illustrates the patterns of monetary remittance management, which will be defined as a specific form of social remittance, since they are practices shaped by systems of norms challenged by migration. In the second part, the article moves on to discuss other types of social remittances transferred by migrant women to their families left behind: the right of self-care and self-realisation; the recognition of alternative and more women-friendly life-course patterns; consumption styles and ideas on economic education. Therefore, I will explore the contents of social remittances, but also the gender and intergenerational conflicts that characterise these flows of cultural resources.

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