From Slovenia to Egypt
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From Slovenia to Egypt

Aleksandrinke's Trans-Mediterranean Domestic Workers' Migration and National Imagination

  1. 270 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

From Slovenia to Egypt

Aleksandrinke's Trans-Mediterranean Domestic Workers' Migration and National Imagination

About this book

Aleksandrinstvo, the women migration from a small European country to prosperous Egypt (1870-1950) brought with it dramatic changes in the role of women and men, in the value placed on women's work within the traditional economy and within the internal dynamics of their society of origin, both at the level of families and the wider community as well as in the relationships between generations. This emigration had a profound impact on women's self-esteem and at the same time on the public image of migrants as non-conventional female characters whose reputation fluctuated between silent thankful adoration and loud moral condemnation. It is thus not surprising that the phenomenon was, for half a century, buried under a thick blanket of denial and traumatic memories, which this book is trying to finally remove.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Body
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. I. Aleksandrinke
  7. Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik: 1. Trans-Mediterranean Women Domestic Workers: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
  8. Sylvia Hahn: 2. Labour Migration and Female Breadwinners
  9. II. From Goriska To Egypt
  10. Aleksej Kalc: 3. Migration Movements in Goriska in the Time of Aleksandrinke
  11. Barbara Skubic: 4. A Drop in the Sea of Foreign Workers in Egypt
  12. Dasa Koprivec: 5. Personal Narratives of Lives in Egypt and at Home
  13. III. Migration and National Imagination
  14. Dirk Hoerder: 6. Re-Remembering Women Who Chose Caregiving Careers in a Global Perspective: Mothers of the Nation or Agents in Their Own Lives?
  15. Katja Mihurko Poniz: 7. Representations and Mythologisations of Aleksandrinke in Slovenian Literature
  16. Marina Lukič Hacin: 8. Women Migrants and Gender Relations: Patriarchy in the Time of Aleksandrinke
  17. Jernej Mlekuz: 9. The Newspaper Images of Aleksandrinke and the National Imagination
  18. IV. Comparative Perspective over Space and Time
  19. Sylvia Hahn: 10. Migration and Career Patterns of Female Domestic Servants
  20. Francesca Biancani: 11. Globalisation, Migration, and Female Labour in Cosmopolitan Egypt
  21. Majda Hrzenjak: 12. Slovenian Domestic Workers in Global Care Economies
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index