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Cvajner, Martina

Women migration, unexpected intimacies and emerging lovescapes : The experience of post-soviet migrant women pioneers in italy

2019 - Franco Angeli

113-134 p.

  • The paper, based on a nearly two-decade long ethnographic fieldwork and an hermeneutic analysis of a set of life histories, discusses the development of two key informal institutions that have played an important role in the settlement of the very first wave – the so called pioneers – of Eastern European women migrants in the Italian Northeast. I describe the birth of an informal group able to sustain a minimal sociability pattern and the evolution of an erotic normative system able to guide the women in their navigation of a new and largely unexpected lovescape.
  • The participation, often ambiguous and torn by serious strains, in such informal institutions has provided many women pioneers with information, material and emotional support and even mating chances. I argue, however, that their most important contribution has been providing the women, although somewhat ambiguously, with an emotional grasp of a new urban citizenship. Through these informal institutions, they have learnt how to experience and perform in emigration a different Self. [Publisher's text].

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Sociologia e politiche sociali : 3, 2019