ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Women Migrants from the Northern Mediterranean and Work in Postwar Northwestern Europe
A key assumption about postwar migration in Europe is incorrect – that nearly all who moved from the European South to work in the booming northwestern European economies were men. In fact, anywhere between 25 and 30% were women, but their role was erased by policy-makers, and subsequently by researchers, who framed labour migration as male. The resulting epistemological fog has led to claims that the feminisation of migration is a recent phenomenon. Women’s work trajectories, and experiences of work, were distinctly gendered. Rectifying the record involves not only rescuing the forgotten stories of women working legally in factories. It also involves rethinking the notion of labour…
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