TY - BOOK ID - 58818397 TI - Sex, Love, and Migration : Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic PY - 2017 SN - 9781501709418 1501709410 9781501712050 1501712055 9781501713149 1501713140 1501713159 PB - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Post-communism KW - Transnationalism KW - Women foreign workers KW - Foreign women workers KW - Women alien labor KW - Migrant women labor (Foreign workers) KW - Migrant women workers (Foreign workers) KW - Women migrant labor (Foreign workers) KW - Women migrant workers (Foreign workers) KW - Foreign workers KW - Women employees KW - Trans-nationalism KW - Transnational migration KW - International relations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:58818397 AB - "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"-- ER -