Traffic in Women''s Work - East European Migration and the Making of Europe

"Welcome to the European family!" When East European countries joined the European Union under this banner after 1989, they agreed to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and persons. In this book, the author analyzes an important niche in this imagined European kinship: the traffic in women.

About the author

Anca Parvulescu is associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Laughter: Notes on a Passion. She lives in St. Louis, MO.

Summary

"Welcome to the European family!" When East European countries joined the European Union under this banner after 1989, they agreed to the free movement of goods, services, capital, and persons. In this book, the author analyzes an important niche in this imagined European kinship: the traffic in women.

Product details

• Authors: Anca Parvulescu, Parvulescu Anca
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2014
• EAN: 9780226118246
• ISBN: 978-0-226-11824-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Eastern Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples