Abstract
This book explores different facets of migrant women’s participation in the EU. It analyses the lives of new female migrants with a focus on the labour market, and domestic, care work and prostitution in particular, both in terms of regular and irregular status and using a biographical perspective. It draws on research in the frame of the FeMiPol project, conducted between 2006 and 2008 within the 6th Framework Programme of the European Commission. This book provides a comparative analysis embracing 11 European countries from Northern (the UK, Germany, Sweden, France), Southern (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus) and Eastern Europe (Poland, Slovenia), that is, old and new immigration countries as well as old and new market economies. This book considers the interplay of migration and policies and women’s strategies in relation to these.
Keywords
- Labour Market
- Asylum Seeker
- Migrant Woman
- Civic Participation
- Undocumented Migrant
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Notes
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Under ‘new migration’, we mean the migratory movements in the last decade of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first.
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‘Integration of Female Immigrants in Labour Market and Society. Policy Assessment and Policy Recommendations’; see www.femipol.uni-frankfurt.de.
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The UK, Ireland and Denmark have opted out of the directive.
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The capabilities approach for reframing integration has been adopted by the European Network Against Racism (2011). See also Briones (2009).
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The book draws on the empirical data collected within the FeMiPol project: biographical narrative interviews with 196 migrant women who entered European countries in the last two decades and 66 expert interviews with policy makers, social service officers and NGO activists.
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Anthias, F., Morokvasic-Müller, M., Kontos, M. (2013). Introduction: Paradoxes of Integration. In: Anthias, F., Kontos, M., Morokvasic-Müller, M. (eds) Paradoxes of Integration: Female Migrants in Europe. International Perspectives on Migration, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4842-2_1
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