Exile vs. Exodus: Nationalism and Gendered Migration from Ukraine to Italy and California
Journal: eScholarship (California Digital Library)
Year: 2010

The post-soviet economic transformation and the rise of a new Ukrainian nationalism are interconnected gendered processes producing both a new structural reality which has decreased the employment opportunities for women in Ukraine and a new discursive terrain including a contested moral order and a reification of mothers as the symbol of a still fragile Ukrainian national identity. It is in this context that Post-Soviet Ukraine has become the site of mass emigration. This dissertation is a cros