The text tackles selected aspects of migration of female migrants from the former Soviet Union living in Slovenia. Through the principle of intersectionality the ways in which female migrants are found on the crossroads of political, national and class junctures are explored. Women’s ways of challenging the social structures that the researchers have identified as 'Fortress Europe' and complex transnational ties and identities they create are revealed. Static migrant categorisations are questioned with reference to turning points in the collocutors’ lives.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29007917
In the so-called classical migration studies, researchers have tended to treat migrants as 'genderless beings' or have assumed that all migrants, regardless of gender, experience migration in the same way. In this regard, they have overlooked the contribution of women to the economic, social and political life in new societies. The main aim of the monograph is to reveal a part of this traditionally overlooked resaarch area through the understanding of women's experiences as actors in the migration process.
COBISS.SI-ID: 249803008