Sex, Love, and Migration - Bloch Alexia
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ENG: Sex, Love, and Migration complicates a narrative of women's exploitation as a feature of migration in the twenty-first century, to argue that women's mobility is marked not only by risks but also by personal and social transformation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork spanning a decade (2002-2011), Alexia Bloch shows how women moving between the former Soviet Union and Turkey forged new forms of relationships in their households in Moldova, Ukraine, and Russia, but also in Istanbul, where they often worked for years on end. The lives and aspirations of post-Soviet migrant women employed…mehr

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ENG: Sex, Love, and Migration complicates a narrative of women's exploitation as a feature of migration in the twenty-first century, to argue that women's mobility is marked not only by risks but also by personal and social transformation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork spanning a decade (2002-2011), Alexia Bloch shows how women moving between the former Soviet Union and Turkey forged new forms of relationships in their households in Moldova, Ukraine, and Russia, but also in Istanbul, where they often worked for years on end. The lives and aspirations of post-Soviet migrant women employed in three spheres in Istanbul-sex work, the garment trade, and domestic work?are featured, challenging us to decouple images of women on the move from simple assumptions about danger, victimization, and trafficking. RUS: Исследование Алексии Блок выходит за рамки общепринятого представления об эксплуатации женщин как характерной черте миграции начала XXI века, в котором фигурируют молодые женщины из бедных стран, пересекающие границы, чтобы заниматься низкооплачиваемым и зачастую интимным трудом. Автор утверждает, что мобильность женщин свя
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ENG: Alexia Bloch is Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on gender and migration, as well as memory, identity, and postsocialist transformations, and most recently refugee reception and resettlement. She has also authored The Museum at the End of the World: Encounters in the Russian Far East and Red Ties and Residential Schools: Indigenous Siberians in a Post-Soviet State (both with the University of Pennsylvania Press). RUS: Алексия Блок -- профессор антропологии в Университете Британской Колумбии. В сфере ее научных интересов -- вопросы миграции, антропология пола, материнство, этнографические методы и письменность, а также социалистические культуры.