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  1. ‘Big Sisters’ are Better Domestic Servants?! Comments on the booming au Pair Business.Annette Puckhaber & Sabine Hess - 2004 - Feminist Review 77 (1):65-78.
    The au pair program in general is still known as a form of cultural exchange program and a good possibility for young women to spend a year abroad, although it has undergone great changes during the last 10 years. This article argues that due to different socio-economic and cultural processes in Western postindustrial societies as well as in the eastern and southern parts of the world the au pair program is becoming a form of domestic work with quite similar working (...)
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  • Transnational Migration and the Emergence of the European Border Regime: An Ethnographic Analysis.Serhat Karakayali & Vassilis Tsianos - 2010 - European Journal of Social Theory 13 (3):373-387.
    Most critical discussions of European immigration policies are centered around the concept of Fortress Europe and understand the concept of the border as a way of sealing off unwanted immigration movements. However, ethnographic studies such as our own multi-sited field research in South-east Europe clearly show that borders are daily being crossed by migrants. These findings point to the shortcomings of the Fortress metaphor. By bringing to the fore the agency of migrants in the conceptualization of borders, we propose to (...)
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