“The Only Role Available to you is to Conform”: Women’s Migration Stories

“The Only Role Available to you is to Conform”: Women’s Migration Stories

this paper sets out to discuss the situation of Romanian migrant women as represented in their stories. A major issue the paper broaches is the degree of agency and choice migrant women enjoy and the strategies they seek to expand them. Other topics discussed refer to the dominant migration ideology...

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Main Author: Nicolaescu Mădălina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2015-12-01
Series:Gender Studies
Subjects:
agency
Eastern Europe migrant women
Romania
Online Access:http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/genst.2015.14.issue-1/genst-2016-0013/genst-2016-0013.xml?format=INT
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Romania
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title “The Only Role Available to you is to Conform”: Women’s Migration Stories
title_short “The Only Role Available to you is to Conform”: Women’s Migration Stories
title_full “The Only Role Available to you is to Conform”: Women’s Migration Stories
title_fullStr “The Only Role Available to you is to Conform”: Women’s Migration Stories
title_full_unstemmed “The Only Role Available to you is to Conform”: Women’s Migration Stories
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series Gender Studies
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description this paper sets out to discuss the situation of Romanian migrant women as represented in their stories. A major issue the paper broaches is the degree of agency and choice migrant women enjoy and the strategies they seek to expand them. Other topics discussed refer to the dominant migration ideology in the source country as well as the restrictions writers have in dealing with more problematic aspects.
topic agency
Eastern Europe migrant women
Romania
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