Fron 'settlement' to 'integration': Informal practices and social services for women migrants in Athens

Vaiou, D; Stratigaki, M

dc.contributor.author	Vaiou, D	en
dc.contributor.author	Stratigaki, M	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T02:45:17Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T02:45:17Z
dc.date.issued	2008	en
dc.identifier.issn	0969-7764	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/32256
dc.subject	Albanian migrant women	en
dc.subject	Everyday life	en
dc.subject	Gender	en
dc.subject	Neighbourhoods	en
dc.subject	Social services	en
dc.subject.classification	Environmental Studies	en
dc.subject.classification	Urban Studies	en
dc.subject.other	acculturation	en
dc.subject.other	conference proceeding	en
dc.subject.other	diaspora	en
dc.subject.other	European immigrant	en
dc.subject.other	gender relations	en
dc.subject.other	migrants experience	en
dc.subject.other	neighborhood	en
dc.subject.other	planning practice	en
dc.subject.other	refugee	en
dc.subject.other	social participation	en
dc.subject.other	womens employment	en
dc.subject.other	Athens [Georgia]	en
dc.subject.other	Georgia	en
dc.subject.other	North America	en
dc.subject.other	United States	en
dc.title	Fron 'settlement' to 'integration': Informal practices and social services for women migrants in Athens	en
heal.type	conferenceItem	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1177/0969776407087545	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969776407087545	en
heal.language	English	en
heal.publicationDate	2008	en
heal.abstract	In recent European literature on migration, two main trends characterize the ways in which migrants are increasingly portrayed. The first tends to define migrants in terms of their belonging to 'communities' while, in the second trend, migrants and refugees epitomize ideas of diaspora and hybridity, as resistance to constructions of place-bound 'communities'. In the context of these trends, women migrants hold ambivalent positions as particular 'others'. In our article, we attempt to problematize the 'purity' of these approaches. Based on research with Albanian migrant women in Athens, we examine the ways in which they construct very local, but also transnational and imagined communities while they seek to settle and find ways of integrating in the new setting. Using material from focus groups and biographical interviews with women migrants, as well as with women employers, we discuss: (a) the importance of informal practices of support and assistance at the neighbourhood level; and (b) the role of social services (health and child care), as they affect migrant women's efforts to negotiate a place for themselves and their dependents, to forge a sense of belonging and redefine communities and gender relations. © 2008 Sage Publications.	en
heal.publisher	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD	en
heal.journalName	European Urban and Regional Studies	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1177/0969776407087545	en
dc.identifier.isi	ISI:000255723600003	en
dc.identifier.volume	15	en
dc.identifier.issue	2	en
dc.identifier.spage	119	en
dc.identifier.epage	131	en