Introduction. Connecting Europe: Past and Present
摘要
In the first section, Beatrice Zucca Micheletto scrutinizes the link between migration, education, and skilled labour patterns, and explains how this specific perspective enriches our understanding of female migration. Especially, by relying on the recent feminist literature, the section shows that focusing on educated/skilled women challenges the image of female migrants as victims of their partners and of their native, backward society and as a problematic presence for the hosting society—a clot of stereotypes with which (also) migrant women from Eastern Europe are described. In the second section, Nicoleta Roman sheds light on the historical background and the emergence of a paradigm that affected our understanding of the relationship between two parts of Europe (East and West). It also argues for the use of multidirectionality and of networks as tools in the analysis of women’s migration.