https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 14:49:54 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/diasporic-youth-identities-of-uncertainty-and-hope-second-generation-albanian-experiences-of-transnational-mobility-in-an-era-of-economic-crisis-in-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:43 +0000 http://arc.local/items/diasporic-youth-identities-of-uncertainty-and-hope-second-generation-albanian-experiences-of-transnational-mobility-in-an-era-of-economic-crisis-in-greece/ Continued]]> This paper explores various dimensions of ‘gender’ and ‘mobility’ among immigrant youth from a transnational perspective in an era of economic crisis. The extent and parameters of continuity, contestation and change in migrant youth identities are analysed and we suggest that neither gender nor identity are stable categories but are embedded in sociocultural particularities both in the country of residence (Greece) but also in the country of origin (Albania). Through in-depth interviews with 52 participants, all second-generation Albanian immigrants in Greece born to two Albanian parents, the paper addresses youth identification in relation to gendered representations of belonging. The narrative accounts that we have selected and analysed reflect the emotional challenges, constraints and creativity of Albanian youth.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/migrating-motherhood-and-gendering-exile-eastern-european-women-narrate-migrancy-and-homing/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:32 +0000 http://arc.local/items/migrating-motherhood-and-gendering-exile-eastern-european-women-narrate-migrancy-and-homing/ Continued]]> This article draws on a larger oral history project with Albanian, Bulgarian, Romanian and Polish migrant women living Greece, exploring how migrancy, motherhood and mothering intersect with how a negotiation and translation of emotional, cultural, embodied agency is transformed in the meanings of citizenship on translocal and transnational levels. We unpack gendered representations of how striving to belong is transmitted in migrant mothering practices and how the latter intersect with wider issues of immigration policy and status in an era of crises in Greece. In mapping experiences of migrant mothering through participant narratives, we demonstrate the importance of understanding mothering and migrancy as parallel, complementary and complex performativities. As such they form iconographies of resilience, incorporation and individual agency as women cope with being both migrants and mothers, often without extensive networks of support, and within a context of a wider xenophobic and crisis-ridden Greece.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/social-development-and-transnational-households-resilience-and-motivation-for-albanian-immigrants-in-greece-in-the-era-of-economic-crisis/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:20 +0000 http://arc.local/items/social-development-and-transnational-households-resilience-and-motivation-for-albanian-immigrants-in-greece-in-the-era-of-economic-crisis/ Continued]]> This paper examines the ways in which the Greek economic crisis has affected the social development of Albanian immigrants in both the sending and the host country. It focuses on transnational households and family development projects and examines the degree of resilience and the power of motivation that drives people’s reactions during the crisis, comparing first- and second-generation immigrants. My research focuses mainly on those Albanian immigrants who by the third year of the economic crisis still live in Greece. The empirical analysis is based on primary data derived from participant observation, a semi-structured questionnaire with second-generation migrants and in-depth interviews amongst first- and second-generation Albanian immigrants residing in both urban and rural areas in Greece.

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