Milharcic Hladnik / Milharcic Hladnik From Slovenia to Egypt

Aleksandrinke’s Trans-Mediterranean Domestic Workers’ Migration and National Imagination
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-8470-0403-5
Verlag: V&R unipress
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band Band 013, 270 Seiten

Reihe: Transkulturelle Perspektiven

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.

Mirjam Milhar?i? Hladnik is a researcher at the Slovenian Migration Institute at the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana and a professor at the University of Nova Gorica.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Milharcic Hladnik, Mirjam

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hahn, Sylvia

Kalc, Aleksej

Skubic, Barbara

Koprivec, Dasa

Hoerder, Dirk

Poniz, Katja Mihurko

Kuksic Hacin, Marina

Mlekuz, Jernej

Biancani, Francesca

Hrzenjak, Majda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title Page;3
2;Copyright;4
3;Table of Contents;5
4;Body;7
5;Acknowledgements;7
6;I. Aleksandrinke;9
7;Mirjam Milharcic Hladnik: 1. Trans-Mediterranean Women Domestic Workers: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives;11
7.1;Introduction;11
7.1.1;From oblivion to recognition;13
7.1.2;Between sacrifice and emancipation;15
7.2;The theoretical and conceptual framework of aleksandrinstvo research;17
7.2.1;Migration system of aleksandrinstvo;19
7.2.2;The “gender paradox”;23
7.2.3;“Moral destruction”;26
7.3;The contemporariness of aleksandrinstvo;29
7.3.1;Mothers and fathers;30
7.3.2;Workers and employers;32
7.4;Aleksandrinke have come home;36
8;Sylvia Hahn: 2. Labour Migration and Female Breadwinners;39
9;II. From Goriska To Egypt;47
10;Aleksej Kalc: 3. Migration Movements in Goriska in the Time of Aleksandrinke;49
10.1;Goriska and its migration movements before World War I;49
10.2;Goriska and its migration movements after World War I;63
10.3;Aleksandrinke in the context of migration movements in Goriska;67
11;Barbara Skubic: 4. A Drop in the Sea of Foreign Workers in Egypt;73
11.1;Introduction;73
11.2;The long nineteenth century and the first migrants;76
11.3;Towards the Canal, and through it, to bankruptcy;78
11.4;Foreign workers in Egypt;81
11.5;Women in the workforce;86
11.6;Conclusion;92
12;Dasa Koprivec: 5. Personal Narratives of Lives in Egypt and at Home;93
12.1;Introduction;93
12.2;Aleksandrinke;94
12.2.1;Leaving home;94
12.2.2;Life in Egypt;97
12.2.3;Life at home;101
12.3;The children of aleksandrinke;103
12.3.1;Migrations of the children of aleksandrinke;103
12.3.2;Testimonies of the children of aleksandrinke about the life in Egypt;106
12.3.3;Forming their own family and professional identity;110
12.4;Conclusion;113
13;III. Migration and National Imagination;115
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?;117
14.1;Introduction;117
14.2;Societies, states, nation-states, and cultural self-affirmation;118
14.3;Women's migrations: the data;121
14.4;Resident and migrant women's work: skilled or unskilled?;123
14.5;Comparisons: domestic and caregiving work in a global perspective;125
14.6;Conceptualisations: translocal – transregional – transcultural;128
15;Katja Mihurko Poniz: 7. Representations and Mythologisations of Aleksandrinke in Slovenian Literature;131
15.1;The images of foreigners and the foreign in the Slovenian literature;132
15.2;The Beautiful Vida – the first mythical migrant in Slovenian literature;134
15.3;Aleksandrinke as Beautiful Vidas;136
15.3.1;Victory over temptation or the first literary presentation of an aleksandrinka;137
15.3.2;The moral destruction of an aleksandrinka as a pedagogical example: The Egyptian Woman by Anton Askerc;138
15.3.3;Ju Kozak’s novella Tuja žena [The Foreign Woman] (1929): an aleksandrinka as a wet nurse;140
15.3.4;Bevk's novella Cranes: the introduction of the Beautiful Vida motif into the presentation of aleksandrinke;141
15.4;Aleksandrinke caught into sacrifice and promiscuity in the prose of Marjan Tomic: Bitter Sea and Southern Wind;144
15.5;The most recent literary rendition of aleksandrinke: a different view;151
15.6;The depiction of the Beautiful Vida myth in texts on aleksandrinke;152
15.7;Conclusion;155
16;Marina Lukic Hacin: 8. Women Migrants and Gender Relations: Patriarchy in the Time of Aleksandrinke;157
16.1;Introduction;157
16.2;Europe;159
16.3;Slovenian ethnic territory;163
16.4;Aleksandrinke;169
17;Jernej Mlekuz: 9. The Newspaper Images of Aleksandrinke and the National Imagination;173
17.1;Introduction;173
17.2;“The Cancer on the Body of the People of Primorska”;175
17.3;“An Original Post from Alexandria”;182
17.4;“Our Present and Our Future in Egypt”;185
17.5;Conclusion;191
18;IV. Comparative Perspective over Space and Time;193
19;Sylvia Hahn: 10. Migration and Career Patterns of Female Domestic Servants;195
19.1;Introduction;195
19.2;Migration distances and career patterns;196
19.3;Path to the city;198
19.4;In the wake of the employer;200
19.5;Across the seas – international (long-distance) migration;202
20;Francesca Biancani: 11. Globalisation, Migration, and Female Labour in Cosmopolitan Egypt;207
20.1;Introduction;207
20.2;Egypt and the “first wave of modern globalisation”;208
20.3;North-South Mediterranean crossings: the case of Italian migrants to Egypt;212
20.4;Mass migration and urban change;214
20.5;Cosmopolitanism in Egypt: Cairo and Alexandria;218
20.5.1;Cairo in numbers;220
20.5.2;Cosmopolitan Alexandria;222
20.6;Globalisation, gender, and labour;225
20.7;Conclusion;228
21;Majda Hrzenjak: 12. Slovenian Domestic Workers in Global Care Economies;229
21.1;Introduction;229
21.2;Aleksandrinstvo – a historical example of a contemporary global care chain;232
21.3;Life-cycle model: a parallel alternative to aleksandrinstvo;236
21.4;Double ethnicisation experienced by Slovenian domestic workers in Italy;237
21.5;The impact of Yugoslav socialism on female emigration;238
21.6;The situation of Slovenian domestic workers in Italy today;241
21.7;Conclusion;245
22;Bibliography;249
22.1;Newspapers;265
23;Index;267

Über Autor(innen)

Hoerder, Dirk
Dr. Dirk Hoerder teaches North-American social history and migration history at Bremen University, and has directed several internationally cooperative and comparative research projects on migration and acculturation.

Milharcic Hladnik, Mirjam
Mirjam Milharcic Hladnik is a researcher at the Slovenian Migration Institute at the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana and a professor at the University of Nova Gorica.

Milharcic Hladnik, Mirjam
Mirjam Milharcic Hladnik is a researcher at the Slovenian Migration Institute at the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana and a professor at the University of Nova Gorica.