Project description
Gendered representations of migrant women in historical perspective
Migration is a lot more than people’s movement across borders. It is also a deeply gendered and identity-shaping process that influences how individuals are perceived by others and how they view themselves. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the MIGRAWO project will explore how Italian-speaking migrant women in Buenos Aires and New York were represented and how they represented themselves from the late 19th century to the beginning of the Second World War, a period marked by the rise of mass political activism and women’s movements. Drawing on newspapers, official records, personal documents and oral histories, the project will examine how gender, ethnicity, status, ideology and identity shaped migrant women’s experiences.
Objective
Building on theoretical arguments which interpret migration as a transformative ongoing process (cf. Boyd, Schiller, Hoerder, Basch, Blanc-Szanton) and as a gendered phenomenon affecting individuals’ and societal identities (cf. Hondagneu-Sotelo, Milharčič-Hladnik, Mlekuž, Strle, Salazar Parreñas, Verginella), MIGRAWO is an innovative project that aims to critically examine the way migrant women were represented and represented themselves, thus foregrounding an intersectional perspective to assess how gender, status, ethnicity, identity and ideology touch and traverse migrant women’s trajectories and challenging a narrative that overlooks gender dynamics within migration.
MIGRAWO will identify ideas and ideologies about migrant women especially in the domains of labour and political activism, thus indexing a continuity with ongoing visions and practices in the present day and manifold continuing covert and overt discrimination. This will be done through qualitative and quantitative approaches, using the press, official and personal records and oral interviews as sources. Chronologically, MIGRAWO spans from the late nineteenth century to the beginning of the Second World War, a period marked by the formation of mass political activisms, including global women’s movements, and profound changes in European and American political and legal frameworks. The representation and self-representation of Italian-speaking migrant women from Northern Italy and the former Austro-Hungarian territories (particularly from the border between Italy and Slovenia) will be analysed by focussing on the migratory realities of Buenos Aires and New York, two urban centres particularly significant for the presence of large Italian-speaking migrant communities, who worked and engaged in political activism as testified by the presence of many ideologically aligned outlets (for example, La Nuova Civiltà, published in Buenos Aires or La Questione sociale, published in Paterson, NY). Findings
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
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