Gendered work and socialist pasts: memories and experiences of women repatriates in Germany.
In this article, I examine how migrant women make sense of their new positions in the labour market while drawing on and negotiating past meanings and experiences. I explore the individual biographies of legally privileged co-ethnic women repatriates from the former Soviet Union to Germany through a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 50; no. 14; pp. 3646 - 3663 |
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Aug2024
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