Facets of Women’s Migration

Edited By: Elisabetta Di Giovanni

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This volume presents original contributions on women’s migration from an interdisciplinary context. The papers examine diverse destinations—including the Italian city of Palermo, Italy and Europe—through a variety of theoretical and geographical perspectives.

This volume presents original and high quality contributions on women’s migration from several different perspectives. Because of its complex nature, this topic has been examined…

This volume presents original and high quality contributions on women’s migration from several different perspectives. Because of its complex nature, this topic has been examined in order to bring into dialogue a variety of theoretical perspectives, within an interdisciplinary context which includes not only sociology, anthropology, psychology and political geography, but also linguistics and literature. As the papers present the results of research projects which refer to specific geographical contexts, the collection is structured around the diverse destinations of the migrations here considered: namely, the Italian city of Palermo, Italy and Europe.

All the papers were presented during the sixth edition of the “Migration, Human Rights and Democracy” Summer School, organized by the University of Palermo, Italy, in September 2012, which every year focuses on specific topics concerning questions of migration and human motilities in the contemporary world.

Elisabetta di Giovanni (born 1973) graduated with honours in Modern Italian Literature from the University of Palermo in 1995 and obtained a PhD in “Humankind and Environment” in 1999. During the PhD program, her research focused on the nature-culture relationship from a socio-anthropological perspective. Between 2003 and 2006, she conducted a Research Fellowship in Religious Anthropology at the University of Palermo. She has been Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Palermo since 2006. She teaches Folklore Studies and is a member of the PhD program in “Teacher Training”. She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Sociology of Religion section of the Italian Sociology Association. While also interested in migrant communities and host society relationship, religious anthropology, patronage, and religiosity in youth, currently her research and writing is devoted to Roma studies.