scholarly journals Understanding Patterns of Economic Insecurity for Post-Soviet Migrant Women in Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Gewinner ◽  
Stefania Salvino
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Life Domains ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Economic Insecurity ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Union Experience

This study deals with meanings of economic insecurity for post-Soviet migrant women in Germany, Italy, and Spain, elaborating on its cultural underpinnings. Drawing upon several data sources, including interviews, observation, and online data, as well as judicial material, this study addresses the ways women from the former Soviet Union experience economic insecurity and which strategies they develop to cope. We consider women's age, social background, and level of education, analyzing their embeddedness into different life domains. We identify four patterns of coping with economic insecurity, linked to individual characteristics, cultural values and legal frame conditions in the countries under investigation, and provide implications for social mobility and conservative backlash in Europe.

scholarly journals Acculturation and adjustment of elderly émigrés from the former Soviet Union: A life domains perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana G. Genkova ◽  
Edison J. Trickett ◽  
Dina Birman ◽  
Andrey Vinokurov
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Life Domains

Post-socialist scapes of economy and desire

Focaal ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 2004 (43) ◽  
pp. 27-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Banu Nilgün Uygun
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Global Markets ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
The Political ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Men I

This essay explores the sexual-economic transactions between Turkish men and women from the former Soviet Union (FSU), focusing on Trabzon, a Turkish port town on the southeast coast of the Black Sea. I first provide background on 'the new migration' from the FSU to Turkey, paying particular attention to some of the political stakes in discussions of transnational sex work. I then explore these issues through the stories of two migrant women from the FSU who live in Trabzon. In these stories I highlight the ambiguity and complexity of sexual-economic transactions between local men and migrant women to show the inadequacy of the category 'sex work'. Finally, I turn to the demand side of the equation and consider the ideologies shaping the perceptions of local men. I situate them within the context of discourses of modernity in Turkey as they are reconfigured by Turkey's integration into global markets.

scholarly journals Transparent Substance in a Transnational Existence: Materiality, Migration, Memory, and Gender—The Case of Israeli Artist Alina Rom Cohen

Arts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Tal Dekel
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Anthropological Theory ◽  
The World ◽  
Material Turn ◽  
And Gender ◽  
State Of Israel

This article discusses the art of Alina Rome Cohen, a woman artist from the former Soviet Union who immigrated to Israel. Her glass sculptures highlight her hyphenated, multilayered, and dynamic identity, illustrating identity construction processes of migrant women under conditions of uprooting and re-grounding in the globalized era of transnationalism. The discussion feeds from theories influenced by “the material turn”, suggesting that artifacts “speak”. I will therefore argue that the material—glass—is involved in the active discussion and negotiation of power relations within society. Framed through Alfred Gell’s anthropological theory of art, first introduced in his book titled Art and Agency from 1998, this approach proposes a horizon of agency for the artworks themselves, which function in the world alongside other actants operating in the field, such as human beings. This article will analyze Rom Chohen’s artworks and will be informed by cultural theories from migration studies and gender studies, in order to ask new questions about the dynamics of the exclusion and inclusion of migrants under the ethno-national state of Israel, while offering alternative ways by which to think of concepts such as memory and time, as past and present are brought to a simultaneity.

scholarly journals Russian/Former Soviet Union Experience in Small Telescope Usage for Investigation of Interstellar Matter (ISM) and Nebulae

2001 ◽  
Vol 183 ◽  
pp. 343-344
Author(s):  
N.G. Bochkarev
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Standard Technique ◽  
Interstellar Extinction ◽  
Interstellar Matter ◽  
Optical Range ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Union Experience

The deepest tradition in ISM study in the optical range was built in Russia/FSU by V.Fessenkov, the founder of Fessenkov Astrophysical (Aph) Institute (AFIF, Kazakhstan) and G.Shain (Crimean Aph.Obs. - CrAO, Ukraine). The tradition was handed over to SAI (Moscow) by I. Shklovski and S.Pikelner, to Abastumani Aph. Obs. (AAO, Georgia), where a catalogue of dark nebulae (Khavtassi, 1960) was produced, and to Byurakan Aph. Obs. (BAO, Armenia).For a long time 0.3-0.7 m telescopes were used for determination of interstellar extinction in the Galaxy by the standard technique (SAI; Engelhart Astron. Obs. of Kazan Univ., Russia; AAO; BAO and others. The most sophisticated investigations were carried out in Lithuania (e.g. Straizys, 1977; Sudzius, 1974).

Sex, Love, and Migration

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexia Bloch
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Women Migrants ◽  
Global Inequality ◽  
Labor Migrants ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
And Migration ◽  
First World

Sex, Love, and Migration: Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic (SLM) examines global inequality beyond familiar discussions of exploitative relationships that divide the world between the “Third/First World” or “Global South/North”. SLM traces how women’s mobility is fundamentally reshaping their emotional worlds and social ties: with men, children, work, households of origin and destination communities. Since the early 1990s, post-Soviet women have crossed borders between the former Soviet Union and Turkey as labor migrants. Based on ethnographic fieldwork spanning over a decade primarily in Istanbul, but also in Russia and southern Moldova, SLM portrays the lives of post-Soviet migrant women often employed for years on end in three distinct spheres: sex work, the garment trade, and domestic work. It considers how they negotiate emotion, intimate relationships, and unpredictable state powers shaping their lives. SLM challenges us to reconsider assumptions about mobile women being solely defined by danger, victimization, and trafficking, and instead, turns our attention to the stories that speak to the myriad aspirations and complex lives of people engaged in transnational mobility. Above all, SLM portrays women migrants as people who foster intimate ties as they move between hubs of global capitalism and their home communities.

The effect of supranational identity on cultural values in Europe

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 547-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Galina M. Zapryanova ◽  
Lena Surzhko-Harned
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
State Level ◽  
Independent Effect ◽  
Systematic Effect ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Norm Diffusion ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
European Values

Does supranational identity have an independent effect on individuals’ beliefs about culturally contested issues in their national systems? This article demonstrates that self-categorization in the supranational realm – a seemingly unrelated category to domestic value cleavages – has implications for individuals’ views on cultural issues. Traditional theories of international norm diffusion focus almost exclusively on state-level interactions, but our findings provide further evidence to the existence of a more direct mechanism through which norms reach some citizens. A sense of identification with a supranational entity such as Europe makes citizens more likely to espouse the views and opinions promoted by supranational organizations. We use the European Values Study to examine whether supranational identity is associated with socially liberal preferences. Results from the multi-level models indicate that supranational identity exerts a systematic effect on attitudes toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights and gender equality. Additionally, while these effects are more consistent in EU member states, supranational identity exhibits a similar impact on social attitudes in non-EU countries such as those in the former Soviet Union.

Psychological distress among recent immigrants from the former Soviet Union to Israel, I. Correlates of level of distress

1996 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 493-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Zilber ◽  
Y. Lerner
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Open Door ◽  
Open Door Policy ◽  
Large Wave ◽  
Recent Immigrants ◽  
Previous Contact ◽  
The Mean

SynopsisIn most migrations some selection takes place either by the absorbing country and/or the individuals who emigrate. Israel has an open-door policy for immigrants and the recent large wave of immigrants from the former Soviet Union was made up of entire families rather than individuals. This provided an opportunity to examine the issue of migration and psychological distress more directly. A nationwide sample of 600 immigrants who arrived during the preceding year were interviewed in December 1990. Their psychological distress was measured by the PERI Demoralization questionnaire. For both genders, the mean demoralization score of the immigrant sample was found to be significantly higher than that reported for the Israeli-born population (after controlling for education). The factors that were found to be correlated with the level of distress were mostly individual characteristics of the immigrants (e.g. profession, religiousness, former residence in the Chernobyl region, previous contact with the health profession because of psychological problems). Increased distress was also significantly related to perceived lack of social support in Israel, which may in fact be partly determined by personality traits.

scholarly journals Patterns of drugs and alcohol abuse among youth

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 012-013
Author(s):  
Orowitz Tamar Ruth
Keyword(s):  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Alcohol Abuse ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Drugs And Alcohol ◽  
Alcohol And Drug Abuse ◽  
Drug And Alcohol

The study attempted to answer several questions: Does the cultural and social background of immigrant youth from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) affect their use of addictive substances? Do these youth show distinctive patterns of drug and alcohol abuse? Do the addictive substances used by these teenagers share similar characteristics? Are the patterns of drug abuse and alcohol abuse different? Do students in different educational frameworks demonstrate different consumption patterns? Can “critical moments” explain the presence or absence of alcohol and drug abuse?

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