Chapter 5 ‘My hobby is people’: Migration and Communication in the Light of Late Totalitarianism

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Editors’ Introduction 1
5. Part I Subjectivity, Mobility and Gender in Europe
6. Chapter 1 On Becoming Europeans 21
7. Chapter 2 ‘I want to see the world’: Mobility and Subjectivity in the European Context 45
8. Chapter 3 Transformations of Legal Subjectivity in Europe: From the Subjection of Women to Privileged Subjects 68
9. Intermezzo ‘A Dance through Life’: Narratives of Migrant Women 84
10. Part II Subjectivity in Motion: Analysing the Lives of Migrant Women
11. Chapter 4 Imaginary Geographies: Border-places and ‘Home’ in the Narratives of Migrant Women 93
12. Chapter 5 ‘My hobby is people’: Migration and Communication in the Light of Late Totalitarianism 111
13. Chapter 6 Migrant Women in Work 122
14. Chapter 7 The Topos of Love in the Life-stories of Migrant Women 138
15. Chapter 8 Food-talk: Markers of Identity and Imaginary Belongings 152
16. Intermezzo Relationships in the Making: Accounts of Native Women 165
17. Part III: Processes of Identification: Inclusion and Exclusion of Migrant Women
18. Chapter 9 Migration, Integration and Emancipation: Women’s Positioning in the Debate in the Netherlands 175
19. Chapter 10 Modernity versus Backwardness: Italian Women’s Perceptions of Self and Other 195
20. Chapter 11 Moral and Cultural Boundaries in Representations of Migrants: Italy and the Netherlands in Comparative Perspective 212
21. Chapter 12 Changing Matrimonial Law in the Image of Immigration Law 228
22. Intermezzo In Transit: Space, People, Identities 243
23. Conclusions Gender, Subjectivity, Europe: A Constellation for the Future 251
24. Appendix 1 Summary of individual interviewees 275
25. Appendix 2 Summary of interviewees’ characteristics by nationality 304
26. Notes on Contributors 314
27. Index 317