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Gendered Aspects of Migration from Southeast Europe

Van Boeschoten, Riki; Bilalis, Dimitris; Laliotou, Ioanna; Papailia, Pinelopi; Deltsou, Eleutheria; Chatzaroula, Pothiti; Siotou, Alexandra; Stiliou, Lambrini; Raimondos, Alvanos, 2022, "Gendered Aspects of Migration from Southeast Europe", https://doi.org/10.17903/FK2/EW40AH, Κατάλογος Δεδομένων SoDaNet, Second edition
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The research aimed to study migration as a gendered experience through the narratives of the lives of immigrants and immigrants from Albania and Bulgaria. In the last two decades, the geopolitical space of South-Eastern Europe has been redefined in the light of the political developments of the post-communist period and the thickening of a series of political, economic and cultural exchanges. Increased cross-border mobility and the emergence of new social relations as well as forms of political subjectivity and communication play a leading role in this process.The research was based on 60 in-depth interviews with men and women of three age groups from Albania and Bulgaria, as well as ethnographic observations in the country of origin and host country and on visual material. Interview material was analyzed through an interdisciplinary perspective that explores the narrative strategies of immigrants and focuses in particular on three aspects of their lived experiences: integration, work and intercultural communication. The selection of gender as a key parameter for the analysis of the migration phenomenon was dictated by both social and scientific reasons. The "feminization" of immigration is a social phenomenon of the last two decades that has been highlighted by a growing number of social scientists. Although these immigrants are no longer as "invisible" as they were in the past, the real impact of this "feminization" of migratory flows has not been studied in depth. In our effort to fill this research gap, we have sought to broaden our perspective beyond a 'add women' and 'mix' (addwomenandstir) approach.Analyzing the ways in which men and women relate their lived experiences before and after migration, we aimed to better understand gender as an active social process. In particular, we sought to understand how the migration process restructured gender relations both within the immigrant communities and in relation to the host society. From this perspective we have also studied the role of migration in constructing new, often hybrid, but always gendered subjectivities. (2006-06-01)
Social Sciences
MIGRANTS, ANTHROPOLOGY, GENDER ROLE
Hantzaroula Pothiti, “Perceptions of Work in Albanian Immigrant Testimonies and the Structure of Domestic Work in Greece”, in Helma Lutz (ed) Migration and Domestic Work: a European Perspective on a Global Theme, Ashgate/Aldershot, 2007.
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doi:10.17903/FK2/EW40AH
2022-05-10
Qualitative Study without Data
Gendered Aspects of Migration from Southeast Europe
uoc-4-0016-ΕΝ
Van Boeschoten, Riki
(University of Thessaly)
- ORCID:
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http://users.ha.uth.gr/boeschoten/index.php?page=home

Bilalis, Dimitris

Laliotou, Ioanna

Papailia, Pinelopi

Deltsou, Eleutheria

Chatzaroula, Pothiti

Siotou, Alexandra

Stiliou, Lambrini

Raimondos, Alvanos

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Tsiolis, Giorgos
(University of Crete)


The research aimed to study migration as a gendered experience through the narratives of the lives of immigrants and immigrants from Albania and Bulgaria. In the last two decades, the geopolitical space of South-Eastern Europe has been redefined in the light of the political developments of the post-communist period and the thickening of a series of political, economic and cultural exchanges. Increased cross-border mobility and the emergence of new social relations as well as forms of political subjectivity and communication play a leading role in this process.The research was based on 60 in-depth interviews with men and women of three age groups from Albania and Bulgaria, as well as ethnographic observations in the country of origin and host country and on visual material. Interview material was analyzed through an interdisciplinary perspective that explores the narrative strategies of immigrants and focuses in particular on three aspects of their lived experiences: integration, work and intercultural communication. The selection of gender as a key parameter for the analysis of the migration phenomenon was dictated by both social and scientific reasons. The "feminization" of immigration is a social phenomenon of the last two decades that has been highlighted by a growing number of social scientists. Although these immigrants are no longer as "invisible" as they were in the past, the real impact of this "feminization" of migratory flows has not been studied in depth. In our effort to fill this research gap, we have sought to broaden our perspective beyond a 'add women' and 'mix' (addwomenandstir) approach.Analyzing the ways in which men and women relate their lived experiences before and after migration, we aimed to better understand gender as an active social process. In particular, we sought to understand how the migration process restructured gender relations both within the immigrant communities and in relation to the host society. From this perspective we have also studied the role of migration in constructing new, often hybrid, but always gendered subjectivities.
(2006-06-01)

Social Sciences
MIGRANTS
(ELSST)
https://elsst.cessda.eu

ANTHROPOLOGY
(ELSST)
https://elsst.cessda.eu

GENDER ROLE
(ELSST)
https://elsst.cessda.eu

Migration; Equality, inequality and social exclusion; Gender and gender roles; Social conditions and indicators
Hantzaroula Pothiti, “Perceptions of Work in Albanian Immigrant Testimonies and the Structure of Domestic Work in Greece”, in Helma Lutz (ed) Migration and Domestic Work: a European Perspective on a Global Theme, Ashgate/Aldershot, 2007.

Papailias Penelopi, “Projecting Places: Personal Photographs, Migration and the Technology of (Re)location. ΣτοCamera Graeca: Photographs, Narratives, Materialities, επιμ. Philip Carabott, Yannis Hamilakis και Eleni Papargyriou. Λονδίνο: Ashgate, 2015, 337-360.

Laliotou Ioanna, “Greek Crisis Foreseen: The Future in Migrancy”, Greek Review of Social Research, special issue Athena Athanasiou& Giorgos Tsimouris eds., "Displacements and emplacements: Migration, gender, and precarious subjectivities in conditions of aggressive neoliberalism", 140-141 B ́– Γ ́, 2013, 247-260.

Van Boeschoten, R. (2015). Transnational Mobility and the Renegotiation of Gender Identities: Albanian and Bulgarian Migrants in Greece. In: Vermeulen, H., Baldwin-Edwards, M., Boeschoten, R. (eds) Migration in the Southern Balkans. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13719-3_9
doi:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13719-3_9

Hantzaroula, Pothiti "Masculinity, work identities and citizenship in the narratives of Albanian migrants in Greece", O Kosmos tis Ergasias, issue 3, 97-117
http://kosmos-ergasias.unit.uoi.gr/images/pdf/3_Articles_Chantzaroula.pdf

English
Van Boeschoten, Riki
(Laboratory of Social Anthropology, Department of IAKA, University of Thessaly)

2006-06-01
Supervision
Van Boeschoten, Riki

Social Data Network
(SoDaNet)
https://sodanet.gr



2006-06-01
Aligizaki, Dora
2021-07-07
Start: 2004-03-01
End: 2006-06-01

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It is freely accessible in the Laboratory of History, Department of IAKA.
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Greece
Volos

Bulgaria

Albania

Social Science and Humanities Metadata  
Cross-section ad-hoc follow-up
Non-probability: Availability
60

Face-to-face interview
Semi-structured questionnaire
Individual
Recorded files 121 Recorded files (digital) 121 Video files (digital) 7 Typed notes 76

Narrative analysis; Biographical analysis; Ethnographic analysis
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