Sex, Love, and Migration: Postsocialism, Modernity, and Intimacy from Istanbul to the Arctic
Journal: OAPEN (The OAPEN Foundation)
Year: 2021

A common image of migration in the early twenty-first century features young women from poor countries who are drawn into low paid, and often intimate, labor in wealthy countries. While aligning with scholarship critical of such inequalities, From Istanbul with Love traces how new mobilities are fundamentally reshaping emotional worlds and social ties between women and men, women and work, women and their households of origin, and women and children in the region. Based on ethnographic fieldwork