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Remembering across the border: Postsocialist nostalgia among Turkish immigrants from Bulgaria.
- Source :
- American Ethnologist; Nov2009, Vol. 36 Issue 4, p750-767, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- “Postsocialist nostalgia” among Turkish immigrant women from Bulgaria is not just strategic performance to negotiate the challenges that face working women in Turkey but is also cross-cultural analysis based on the migrants’ experiences of distinct gender regimes on the two sides of the border. I explore why the competition between established residents and newcomers over scarce resources becomes, in this instance, the ground for negotiation over proper gender roles. I also suggest that the migrants’ appeal to the communist legacy posits an alternative to either “normalizing” or “Orwellizing” communism and that it offers a more nuanced understanding of the norms and practices of gender and labor under communism, as experienced by this particular group of minority women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- IMMIGRANTS
WOMEN employees
COMMUNISM
SOCIALISM
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00940496
- Volume :
- 36
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- American Ethnologist
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 45037553
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1425.2009.01208.x