Hard Labour: The Forgotten Voices of Latvian Migrant Volunteer Worker

List of contents

Preface, List of Illustrations, 1 Introduction: Looking Back to the 1940s and 1950s, 2 Thinking Through Gender: Theorising Migration, Memory and Identity, 3 Disciplining Bodies: Exile and Involuntary Labour, 4 Life in the Camps: From Foreign Workers to Displaced Persons, 5 Becoming EVWs: From Displaced Persons to Economic Migrants, 6 Survival Strategies: Women’s Dual Roles in Post-War Britain, 7 Place, Locality and Gendered Local Cultures, 8 Yearning for ‘Home’: Narratives of Belonging and Imagined Community, 9 Conclusions: Memory, Identity and Translation, Bibliography, Index

About the author

Linda McDowell

Summary

This book explores the forgotten voices of a group of young women who left Latvia in 1944, telling the story of their flight from the advancing Soviet Army to their refuge in Britain.

Additional text

'[McDowell] handles her sometimes dramatic, sometimes discomforting, and always interesting material with skill and subtlety. The result is a terrific book. While very difficult to put down, it is no easy read. I confess in places I was moved to tears.'– Feminist Economics

Product details

• Authors: McDowell, Linda Mcdowell, Linda (University of Cambridge UK) McDowell, Linda (University of Oxford UK) McDowell, McDowell Linda
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.12.2016
• EAN: 9781138157545
• ISBN: 978-1-138-15754-5
• No. of pages: 236
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; LAW / General, Politics & government, Politics and government