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

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Alexia Bloch

Sex, Love, and Migration

Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic

Alexia Bloch

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Cornell University Press
15 December 2017

Ethical issues: prostitution & sex industry

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.

By: Alexia Bloch
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781501713156
ISBN 10: 1501713159
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 15 December 2017
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation Part 1 Introduction 1. Magnificent Centuries and Economies of Desire Part 2 2. Gender, Labor, and Emotion in a Global Economy 3. ""We Are Like Slaves—Who Needs Capitalism?"" Part 3 4. Strategic Intimacy, ""Real Love,"" and Marriage 5. Intimate Currencies 6. ""Other Mothers,"" Grandmothers, and the State Conclusion Appendix Bibliography"

Alexia Bloch is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Red Ties and Residential Schools and The Museum at the End of the World.

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

Sex, Love, and Migration makes a significant contribution to the anthropologies of postsocialism, migration, and gendered labor. Using the concepts of affect, emotional labor, and structures of feeling, Alexia Bloch skillfully and engagingly guides readers through many of the positionalities comprising multinational and multigenerational networks of migrant women and those they leave behind. * American Ethnologist * These estimable monographs on postsocialist space reflect upon the plight of families as they seek ethical and economic identities and develop care-giving practices and strategies in landscapes haunted by globalization. * Slavic Review *