Sex, Love, and Migration
Journal: Cornell University Press eBooks
Year: 2017

<italic>Sex, Love, and Migration: Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic</italic> (SLM) examines global inequality beyond familiar discussions of exploitative relationships that divide the world between the “Third/First World” or “Global South/North”. <italic>SLM</italic> traces how women’s mobility is fundamentally reshaping their emotional worlds and social ties: with men, children, work, households of origin and destination communities. Since the early 1990s, post-