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Based on vivid and illuminating ethnographic research from both east and west Europe, this book investigates the relationship between geopolitical and physical borders and ideological, classificatory boundaries, highlighting bordering process, and showing how the two often operate in tandem in the regulation of reproduction, care and intimacy.
List of contents
Introduction - Haldis Haukanes and Frances Pine
1 Reconceptualising borders and boundaries: gender, movement, reproduction, regulation - Frances Pine and Haldis Haukanes
Section I Gendered life worlds: migrants' imaginaries and obligations in contested contexts of intimacy
2 Moral economies of intimacy: narratives of Ukrainian solo female migrants in Italy - Olena Fedyuk
3 Borders within intimate realms: looking at marriage migration regimes in Austria and Germany through the perspective of women from rural Kosovo - Carolin Leutloff-Grandits
4 The gender of guilt: diversity and ambivalence of transnational care trajectories within postsocialist migration experience - Petra Ezzeddine and Hana Havelková
5 Celebrating invisibility: live-in Romanian
badanti caring for the elderly in southeast Italy - Gabriela Nicolescu
Section II Gender, entitlement and obligation: migrants interacting with the state and voluntary services
6 Migrating bodies in the context of health and racialisation in Germany - Christiane Falge
7 Joint struggles for care and social reproduction in Spain: contested boundaries and new solidarities - Sílvia Bofill-Poch
8 Migration, gender dynamics and social reproduction: Polish and Italian mothers in Norway - Lise Widding Isaksen and Elzbieta Czapka
9 Reproductive rights in migration: politics, values and in/exclusionary practices in assisted reproduction - Izabella Main
Section III Shifting gendered policies: reproduction and care in national and historical perspectives
10 Children of the state? The role of pronatalism in the development of Czech childcare and reproductive health policies - Hana HaSková and Radka Dudová
11 Absorbing care through precarious labour: the shifting boundaries of politics in Norwegian health care - Anette Fagertun
12 'The Handbook of Masturbation and Defloration': tracing sources of recent neo-conservatism in Poland - Agnieszka Koscianska
Index
About the author
Haldis Haukanes is a social anthropologist and Professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Development at the University of Bergen, Norway
Frances Pine is an Emerita Reader in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths University, University of London
Summary
Based on vivid and illuminating ethnographic research from both east and west Europe, this book investigates the relationship between geopolitical and physical borders and ideological, classificatory boundaries, highlighting bordering process, and showing how the two often operate in tandem in the regulation of reproduction, care and intimacy. -- .
