The article examines migration from the perspective of border theory. The context of border has changed, and the theory that a border separates two or more sedentary entities isn't valid anymore. Notions of migration and rootedness, mobility and stillness, fluidity and permanence have lost their power of concepts by which to frame the debates on migration. If the borders themselves have become moving objects, either as extraterritorial administrative points of control or as tools of social segregation and exclusion within a given territory, what are the conditions by which one becomes a migrant?
COBISS.SI-ID: 53046370
Imagined mother is a collective biographical study of mothers in 20th century western culture, which winds between mythological social reasoning of women in the role of a mother, and ethnographic testimonies of women on maternity. According to the findings of the author, mothers and motherhood are the key ideological parameters for the consolidation of national policies in the 20th century. The sequence of studies presents cases of a socialist partisan mother, western capitalist romantic mother, racially defined black, and proletarian heroic mother, transition melodramatic mother, all the way to the "mother Jelka" and Jovanka, who stand in liminal space of elusive maternity icons.
COBISS.SI-ID: 271504640
The article describes the context of research into women's migrations and carework as a contemporary phenomenon of the developed world, where it was supposed to have disappeared long ago. It places the book about the ŽAlexandrian womenŽ by Daša Koprivec in a wider European and global research trend, presenting historical and contemporary forms of women's paid care work.Work and the migration of women connected to it have always been embeddedin normative, socially prescribed gender roles, and as a result in thenational imagination. As the text shows, the (past) migration of women to Alexandria is therefore once more an important social topic in Slovenia. Equally important are the subjective experiences of the women migrants and their descendants, which are now finally heard thanks to researches and books like the present one by Daša Koprivec.
COBISS.SI-ID: 36576813