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  1. Feminine Jobs/masculine Becomings: Gender and Identity in the Discourse of Albanian Domestic Workers in Greece.Helen Kambouri - 2008 - European Journal of Women's Studies 15 (1):7-22.
    Although there has been significant academic interest in the complex relationship between gender and migration, the relevant literature often focuses on women as victims of trafficking, sexism and racism in the host and sending societies. This article discusses instead the question of gender and migration as an open field of contestation within which transitory and incomplete identities are performed. Based on a series of focus group discussions with Albanian women working in the domestic sector in Athens, the article documents the (...)
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  • Racisme et préférence pour l'identique : du clonage culturel dans la vie quotidienne.Philomena Essed - 2005 - Actuel Marx 38 (2):103-118.
    Racism and Preference for Sameness : About Cultural Cloning in Everyday Life. Over the past two decades we have come to the understanding that different forms of discrimination merge and reinforce each other. But (converging) discriminations are also indicative of normative preferences for imagined perfections consisting of a combination of such characteristics as : masculinities, whiteness, Europeanness, physical abilities, high intelligence. The concept of cultural cloning is useful to analyze and explain the taken-for-granted desirability of certain types, the oftenunconscious tendency (...)
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  • Taking out the garbage: Migrant women’s unseen environmental work.Valeria Bonatti - 2018 - European Journal of Women's Studies 25 (1):41-55.
    In recent years, feminist scholars have criticized various European governments for placing the burden of environmentalist practices on women’s unpaid work. While denouncing how environmentalist regimes reinforce gender inequalities, this literature has overlooked migrant domestic workers’ contributions to sustainable practices, such as managing household recyclables and waste. This article addresses the intersection of gender, race and immigration in urban recycling schemes in the city of Naples, Italy, a growing destination for labor migrants and an area with a long history of (...)
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