Some error occured while loading the Quick View. Please close the Quick View and try reloading the page.
How do migrant women living in illegality build intimate relationships? How do they experience, resist or take advantage of the tight link between intimacy and migration status created by the German migration legislation?
Drawing on rich biographical accounts and ethnographic methods, the book offers an insightful and sensitive look at a mostly unknown aspect of life in illegality. Adopting a critical feminist perspective, Flaminia Bartolini shows how intimacy should be understood in its intrinsic power dimension and looks critically at the German migration regime and on its effects on migrants' lives.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Acknowledgments 7
1. Introduction 9
2. Illegality 21
3. Intimacy, family and the state 37
4. Intimacy as an analytical lens 57
5. Methodology 73
6. Ethical issues 89
7. Intimacy in illegality: participants' stories 107
8. Intimate capital and the reproduction of inequalities 181
9. Conclusions 191
References 199
Transcription rules 225