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From Slovenia to Egypt

Aleksandrinke's Trans-Mediterranean Domestic Workers' Migration and National Imagination
Transkulturelle Perspektiven, Band 13 1. Aufl.

von: Mirjam Milharcic Hladnik, Sylvia Hahn, Aleksej Kalc, Barbara Skubic, Dasa Koprivec, Dirk Hoerder, Katja Mihurko Poniz, Marina Kuksic Hacin, Jernej Mlekuz, Francesca Biancani, Majda Hrzenjak
50,00 €
Verlag:	V&R Unipress
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	11.03.2015
ISBN/EAN:	9783847004035
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	270

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Titelbeschreibung

Aleksandrinstvo, the women migration from a small European country to prosperous Egypt (1870-1950) brought with it dramatic changes in the role of women and men, in the value placed on women's work within the traditional economy and within the internal dynamics of their society of origin, both at the level of families and the wider community as well as in the relationships between generations. This emigration had a profound impact on women's self-esteem and at the same time on the public image of migrants as non-conventional female characters whose reputation fluctuated between silent thankful adoration and loud moral condemnation. It is thus not surprising that the phenomenon was, for half a century, buried under a thick blanket of denial and traumatic memories, which this book is trying to finally remove.

Autorenportrait

Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik is a researcher at the Slovenian Migration Institute at the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana and a professor at the University of Nova Gorica.