Mobile Motherhood
Armenian Women's Labor Migration in the Post-Soviet Period
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3892003 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Armine Ishkanian (0000-0002-6449-8966, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 383-415 |
| Publication date | 2002-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Diaspora A Journal of Transnational Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1044-2057 • E-ISSN: 1911-1568 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/dsp.2011.0060 |
| OpenAlex | W2164952484 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 24 |
With the lifting of the Iron Curtain, the citizens of the former Soviet Union had to imagine and construct new lives for themselves; unlike before, these lives could be imagined and lived practically anywhere in the world. While conducting research in Armenia, I learned about men and women who had taken jobs in toy factories in Portugal, canneries in Spain, and factories in Germany. Many people I met in Armenia talked about how they, too, would emigrate to these places to live and work if they could. In this article, I examine the causes of the post-Soviet temporary labor migration of Armenian women to the United States and the experiences and the discourses of self-representation by post-Soviet Armenian transnational migrants whom I studied in Los Angeles area (including Orange County) and in the San Francisco Bay Area. The migrants are physically and culturally living in and between two locations: Armenia and the United States. Their experiences in one location shape and influence their experiences, perceptions, behaviors, and thinking in the second location. Their transnational existence is such that even though they live and work in the United States, they think and feel as if they were still in Armenia; most importantly for the purposes of this article, Armenia remains the center of their moral universe
Ancient history · Armenian · Civil society · Diaspora · Economic history · Emigration · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Soviet union · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Model Americans, Quintessential Greeks
Prekäre Freizügigkeiten
Intersectional power dynamics and extended households
Diaspora and Transnationalism
Does Gender Ideology Matter in Migration
I Want Them to Learn about Israel and the Holidays’
Attracting skilled labour to the North
Double gendered
Deconstructing Mythological Foundations of Ethnic Identities and Ethnic Group Formation
Servants of Globalization
Looking toward Ararat
Entoptic image quality of the retinal vasculature
Globalization and Its Discontents
Ethnography unbound
Post-Soviet Women
Anthropological Locations
Making the Transition Work for Women in Europe and Central Asia
Uncertain Transition
Nations Unbound
The Nation-State and Its Others
Middle East Avenue
Armenian-Americans
Purity and Danger
Second Thoughts from the Second World
Discipline and Practice
Global Ethnography
Is This My Mother's Grave
Between Ambivalence and Intrusion
Rethinking Diaspora (s)
Flexible Citizenship
Faith in History
The Global Situation
Manufacturing the Global
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,39 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2023 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |