Migrants, Work and Social Integration: Women's Labour in the Turkish Ethnic Economy

ISBN-13: 9781137371119 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 213 str.

Saniye Dedeoglu

Opis

Exploring recent contemporary debates on gender and migration, this book scrutinizes the relationship between women's work in ethnic economies in Europe and social integration. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in London, it critically engages with the contemporary political discourses of integration and the ways in which the Turkish community constructs their own forms of integration through the expansion of the ethnic economy. The book shows how women are silent contributors to the ethnic economy and how women's work and their role in the maintenance of social ties and networks play an important role in the economic success of the Turkish community. Questioning the role of the ethnic economy in increasing emphasis on women's traditional gender roles as mothers and wives and in representing ethnic/national identity, this book provides evidence that Turkish women in Britain zig-zag their way to social integration and underlines the need for context-specific integration policies in Europe.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Women Migrants, Work and Social Integration 3. Ethnic Economy and the Turkish Ethnic Economy in London 4. Migratory Trends from Turkey and 'Turkish' Community in London 5. Turkish Immigrant Women in London 6. Women's Work in the London's Turkish Ethnic Economy 7. Zigzag Ways to Social Integration 8. Conclusion

O autorze

Saniye Dedeoglu is Associate Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Labour Economics at Mu?la Univeristy, Turkey, and has been a recent Marie Curie Fellow in the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (CRER) at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Women Workers in Turkey and co-editor of Gender and Society in Turkey.