Sex, Love, and Migration

Sex, Love, and Migration

EnglishPaperback / softback
Bloch Alexia
Cornell University Press
EAN: 9781501713156
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Sex, Love, and Migration goes beyond a common narrative of women's exploitation as a feature of migration in the early twenty-first century, a story that features young women from poor countries who cross borders to work in low paid and often intimate labor. Alexia Bloch argues that the mobility of women is marked not only by risks but also by personal and social transformation as migration fundamentally reshapes women's emotional worlds and aspirations.

Bloch documents how, as women have crossed borders between the former Soviet Union and Turkey since the early 1990s, they have forged new forms of intimacy in their households in Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, but also in Istanbul, where they often work for years on end. Sex, Love, and Migration takes as its subject the lives of post-Soviet migrant women employed in three distinct spheres—sex work, the garment trade, and domestic work. Bloch challenges us to decouple images of women on the move from simple assumptions about danger, victimization, and trafficking. She redirects our attention to the aspirations and lives of women who, despite myriad impediments, move between global capitalist centers and their home communities.

EAN 9781501713156
ISBN 1501713159
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Cornell University Press
Publication date December 15, 2017
Pages 272
Language English
Dimensions 229 x 152 x 19
Country United States
Readership General
Authors Bloch Alexia
Illustrations 2 Maps; 18 Halftones, black and white; 1 Tables, unspecified