In promising women equal citizenship rights and promoting gender equality, Turkey's recent welfare reforms appear to address fundamental problems-the patriarchal system limits women's lives to their roles as wives and mothers, and their labor to informal and unskilled sectors. Yet these policies, guided by the process of accession to the European Union, have conflicting outcomes for women. The reforms sweep away historic support structures and deem women ""equal citizens"" without adequate interventions in legal and social frameworks, thus increasing their vulnerability. The AKP's neo-liberal...

Globalization is often considered as not only generating jobs, but also having a negative effect on those at the bottom of the labor supply chain. Here, Saniye Dedeoglu shows us exactly how globalization has affected women engaged in insecure, invisible, and low/unpaid garment work. Through a close ethnographic study of women workers in Istanbul's garment industry, she reveals how industries have adapted their labor demands to make use of local female labor supplies, and highlights the strategies and responses that have evolved in response to contemporary changes in global industrial...

Exploring recent contemporary debates on gender and migration, this book scrutinizes the relationship between women's work in ethnic economies and social integration, arguing that women in Britain zigzag their way to social integration.