Sex, Love, and Migration : Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic

A common image of migration in the early twenty-first century features young women from poor countries who are drawn into low paid, and often intimate, labor in wealthy countries. While aligning with scholarship critical of such inequalities, From Istanbul with Love traces how new mobilities are fu...

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Main Author: Bloch, Alexia (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press 20171101
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