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This timely and innovative book analyses the lives of new female migrants in the EU with a focus on the labour market, domestic work, care work and prostitution in particular. It provides a comparative analysis embracing eleven European countries from Northern (UK, Germany, Sweden, France), Southern (Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus) and Eastern Europe (Poland, Slovenia), i.e. old and new immigration countries as well as old and new market economies. It maps labour market trends, welfare policies, migration laws, patterns of employment, and the working and social conditions of female...

This book investigates the transnational migration and mobility of women from and within Central and Eastern European countries. It combines different perspectives: sociological and anthropological studies, comparative policy analysis, and historical and statistical evidence, providing new insights into current theoretical debates in migration and gender studies.

During the last thirty years, the modernization of gender relations has been dynamic and comprehensive, shaped by the conflicting forces of globalization as well as women's movements around the world. As the patterns of segregation and discrimination of the classical industrial gender order erode, new complexities and contentions in gender relations emerge at various sites such as politics, work, and families. This book traces formal, as well as informal, gender contracts as they emerge in everyday life and also in new norms and regulations set by states and enterprises. Core issues are the...