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Migrant Women’s Intimate Struggles and Lived Citizenship: Experiences from Southern Europe

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The chapter is based on an ethnographic research on migrant women’s associations in Andalusia, Spain, and explores the lived experiences and practices of citizenship enacted by the participants to the associations. Drawing on the concept of “intimate citizenship”, the focus is on women’s family, personal and intimate lives, as dimensions that contribute to shaping their experience of inclusion or exclusion from citizenship. The empirical analysis entails an intersectional perspective; it shows the power of the institutional and structural context in binding migrant’s choices concerning family and intimate relationships, as well as women’s strategies to copy with this frame and enlarge their opportunities to self-determination, though individual and collective action.

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Cherubini, D. (2017). Migrant Women’s Intimate Struggles and Lived Citizenship: Experiences from Southern Europe. In: Warming, H., Fahnøe, K. (eds) Lived Citizenship on the Edge of Society. Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55068-8_10

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