From Slovenia to Egypt

Aleksandrinke’s Trans-Mediterranean Domestic Workers’ Migration and National Imagination

Contributions by Sylvia Hahn Contributions by Aleksej Kalc Contributions by Barbara Skubic Contributions by Dasa Koprivec Contributions by Dirk Hoerder Contributions by Katja Mihurko Poniz Contributions by Marina Kuksic Hacin Contributions by Jernej Mlekuz Contributions by Francesca Biancani Contributions by Majda Hrzenjak Edited by Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik

Extent: 270 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Gender & Sexuality, Social Sciences

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(March 2015)

ISBN: 9783847104032

6.1 x 0.59 inches

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Contributing Authors

Also it changed the value placed on women’s work within the traditional economy and within the internal dynamics of their society of origin, both at the level of families and the wider community as well as in the relationships between generations. This emigration had a profound impact on women’s self-esteem and at the same time on the public image of migrants as non-conventional female characters whose reputation fluctuated between silent thankful adoration and loud moral condemnation. It is thus not surprising that the phenomenon was, for half a century, buried under a thick blanket of denial and traumatic memories, which this book is trying to finally remove.

Aleksandrinstvo, the women migration from a small European country to prosperous Egypt (1870-1950) brought with it dramatic changes in the role of women and men, in the value placed on women’s work within the traditional economy and within the internal dynamics of their society of origin, both at the level of families and the wider community as well as in the relationships between generations. This emigration had a profound impact on women’s self-esteem and at the same time on the public image of migrants as non-conventional female characters whose reputation fluctuated between silent thankful adoration and loud moral condemnation. It is thus not surprising that the phenomenon was, for half a century, buried under a thick blanket of denial and traumatic memories, which this book is trying to finally remove.

Contributions by Sylvia Hahn
Contributions by Aleksej Kalc
Contributions by Barbara Skubic
Contributions by Dasa Koprivec
Contributions by Dirk Hoerder
Contributions by Katja Mihurko Poniz
Contributions by Marina Kuksic Hacin
Contributions by Jernej Mlekuz
Contributions by Francesca Biancani
Contributions by Majda Hrzenjak
Edited by Mirjam Milharčič Hladnik

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