Floya Anthias

Maria Kontos

Mirjana Morokvasic-Müller

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 migrants in different sectors of the labour market, formal and informal. It is particularly concerned with the strategies women use to counter the disadvantages they face. It analyses the ways in which gender hierarchies are intertwined with other social relations of power, providing a gendered and intersectional perspective, drawing on the biographies of migrant women. The book highlights policy relevant issues and tries to uncover some of the contradictory assumptions relating to integration which it treats as a highly normative and problematic concept. It reframes integration in terms of greater equalisation and democratisation (entailed in the parameters of access, participation and belonging), pointing to its transnational and intersectional dimensions.

Paradoxes of Integration: Female Migrants in Europe

Vor zehn Jahren schürten Thilo Sarrazins Thesen die Debatte um die Integration von MigrantInnen. Anhand von biographischen Fallanalysen untersucht die Autorin die Effekte der Integrationsdebatte auf das Selbstverständnis von MigrantInnen, deren Erfahrung von Missachtung die Rückbildung von fortgeschrittenen Integrationsprozessen in der Migrationsgesellschaft zur Folge hat.

Eine biographieanalytische Untersuchung mit Migrantinnen und Migranten

Die desintegrativen Folgen des öffentlichen Integrationsdiskurses

Glenda Tibe Bonifacio

This timely and innovative book delivers a comprehensive analysis of the non-recognition of the right to a family life of migrant live-in domestic and care workers in Argentina, Canada, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Norway, the Philippines, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, the United States of America, and Ukraine.

Maria Kontos

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