TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bloch,Alexia
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Sex, Love, and Migration : : Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic / 
SN  - 9781501709418
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Women foreign workers
KW  - fast
KW  - Transnationalism
KW  - Post-communism
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Cultural
KW  - Society and social sciences Society and social sciences
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Society and culture: general
KW  - Ethical issues: prostitution and sex industry
KW  - Ethical issues and debates
KW  - Postcommunisme
KW  - Ex-URSS
KW  - Transnationalisme
KW  - Travailleuses etrangeres
KW  - Former Soviet republics
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Magnificent centuries and economies of desire -- Gender, labor, and emotion in a global economy -- We are like slaves, who needs capitalism? : intimate economies and marginal, mobile households -- Strategic intimacy, "real love," and marriage -- Intimate currencies : mobilizing sex "without hang-ups," love, and romance -- Other mothers and a transnational nurturing nexus; Open Access
N2  - "Sex, Love, and Migration goes beyond a common narrative of women's exploitation as a feature of migration in the early twenty-first century, a story that features young women from poor countries who cross borders to work in low paid and often intimate labor. Alexia Bloch argues that the mobility of women is marked not only by risks but also by personal and social transformation as migration fundamentally reshapes women's emotional worlds and aspirations. Bloch documents how, as women have crossed borders between the former Soviet Union and Turkey since the early 1990s, they have forged new forms of intimacy in their households in Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia, but also in Istanbul, where they often work for years on end. Sex, Love, and Migration takes as its subject the lives of post-Soviet migrant women employed in three distinct spheres--sex work, the garment trade, and domestic work. Bloch challenges us to decouple images of women on the move from simple assumptions about danger, victimization, and trafficking. She redirects our attention to the aspirations and lives of women who, despite myriad impediments, move between global capitalist centers and their home communities"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/63613/
ER  -