| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
European kinship: East European women go to market -- Import/export: housework in an international frame -- The female homo sacer: the traffic in coerced reproduction -- "Give me your passport": the traffic in women in a "Europe without borders" -- Ways out: hospitality and free love |
| Summary |
"Welcome to the European family!" When East European countries joined the European Union under this banner after 1989, they agreed to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and persons. In this book, Anca Parvulescu analyzes an important niche in this imagined European kinship: the traffic in women, or the circulation of East European women in West Europe in marriage and as domestic servants, nannies, personal attendants, and entertainers. Analyzing film, national policies, and an impressive range of work by theorists from Giorgio Agamben to Judith Butler, she develops a critical lens |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women immigrants -- Abuse of -- European Union countries
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Women -- Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions
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Human trafficking -- European Union countries
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Human trafficking
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Women immigrants -- Abuse of
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Women -- Social conditions
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Eastern Europe
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European Union countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226118413 |
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022611841X |
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1306709571 |
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9781306709576 |
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