Table Of ContentIntimacy and mobility in an era
of hardening borders
RETHINKING BORDERS
SERIES EDITORS: SARAH GREEN AND HASTINGS DONNAN
Rethinking Borders focuses on what gives borders their qualities across time and
space, as well as how such borders are experienced, built, managed, imagined
and changed. This involves detailed and often richly ethnographic studies of all
aspects of borders: finance and money, bureaucracy, trade, law, new technologies,
materiality, infrastructure, gender and sexuality, even the philosophy of what
counts as being ‘borderly,’ as well as the more familiar topics of migration,
nationalism, politics, conflicts and security.
Previously published
Migrating borders and moving times: Temporality and the crossing of borders
in Europe
Edited by Hastings Donnan, Madeleine Hurd and Carolin Leutloff-Grandits
The political materialities of borders: New theoretical directions
Edited by Olga Demetriou and Rozita Dimova
Border images, border narratives: The political aesthetics of boundaries
and crossings
Edited by Johan Schimanski and Jopi Nyman
Intimacy and mobility in an
era of hardening borders
Gender, reproduction, regulation
Edited by
Haldis Haukanes and Frances Pine
Manchester University Press
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Contents
List of contributors page ix
Acknowledgements xiv
Introduction – Haldis Haukanes and Frances Pine 1
1 Reconceptualising borders and boundaries: gender, movement,
reproduction, regulation 7
Frances Pine and Haldis Haukanes
Part I Gendered life worlds: migrants’ imaginaries
and obligations in contested contexts of intimacy
2 Moral economies of intimacy: narratives of Ukrainian solo
female migrants in Italy 33
Olena Fedyuk
3 Borders within intimate realms: looking at marriage migration
regimes in Austria and Germany through the perspective of
women from rural Kosovo 51
Carolin Leutloff-Grandits
4 The gender of guilt: diversity and ambivalence of transnational
care trajectories within postsocialist migration experience 70
Petra Ezzeddine and Hana Havelková
5 Celebrating invisibility: live-in Romanian badanti caring for
the elderly in southeast Italy 86
Gabriela Nicolescu
Part II Gender, entitlement, and obligation:
migrants interacting with the state and voluntary services
6 Migrating bodies in the context of health and racialisation
in Germany 105
Christiane Falge
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7 Joint struggles for care and social reproduction in Spain:
contested boundaries and new solidarities 123
Sílvia Bofill-Poch
8 Migration, gender dynamics, and social reproduction:
Polish and Italian mothers in Norway 141
Lise Widding Isaksen and Elżbieta Czapka
9 Reproductive rights in migration: politics, values, and
in/exclusionary practices in assisted reproduction 158
Izabella Main
Part III Shifting gendered policies: reproduction and care
in national and historical perspectives
10 Children of the state? The role of pronatalism in the
development of Czech childcare and reproductive health
policies 181
Hana Hašková and Radka Dudová
11 Absorbing care through precarious labour: the shifting
boundaries of politics in Norwegian healthcare 199
Anette Fagertun
12 ‘The Handbook of Masturbation and Defloration’: tracing
sources of recent neo-conservatism in Poland 218
Agnieszka Kościańska
Index 235
List of contributors
Sílvia Bofill-Poch is an Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the
University of Barcelona. Her main research focus has been on political and
legal anthropology, feminist anthropology, and the anthropology of care.
She currently focuses on ageing and policy making, economies of care and
transnational migrations, with particular attention to legal disputes, political
claims, and social justice. She is the head of the Study Group on Reciprocity
(GER) at the University of Barcelona, together with Susana Narotzky; and
is also a founding member of the Research Group on Legal Anthropology.
She serves as scientific coordinator of the project ‘Popular notions of social
justice in the face of the crisis and austerity policies’.
Elżbieta Czapka is an assistant professor at the Institute of Sociology at the
University of Gdańsk. Her current research concerns dementia in families
with a minority ethnic background; care regimes and migration; transnational
care giving and health of new labour migrants. She is a member of the
European Sociological Association, Nordic Dementia Network, European
Network of Intercultural Elderly Care, and Nordic Migration Network.
Radka Dudova works as senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology of
the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. She is an expert in the area
of analysis of public policies and institutions. Her research interests are
policy-making and practices of childcare and elderly care, women’s bodily
citizenship, policy-making on abortion, and changes in the labour market.
She has published articles in the journals Politics and Gender, European
Journal of Industrial Relations, Sociological Research Online, and Interna-
tional Journal of Ageing and Later Life, among others, and she is the author
of several books.
