Description: The book investigates transnational migration and mobility of women from and within Central-Eastern European countries. It looks at women's practices and experiences mostly in the service sector where they are in demand as substitutes in stereotypically "women's work". The book combines different perspectives: sociological and anthropological studies, comparative policy analysis and historical and statistical evidence and provides new insights into current theoretical debates in migration and gender studies.
Review Quotes: All the studies are firmly within the feminist paradigm and most are set in the service sector where women are in demand to perform 'women's work.' For students and researchers in sociology and social anthropology as well as for labour market theorists, they offer valuable insights into the motivations and pressures that underlie the worldwide feminisation of economic migration, the fieldwork having been done in Eastern Europe among women mostly doing domestic work, nursing and care of the elderly.-- "Journal of Contemporary European Studies"