Accumulating Transnational Social Capital among the Greeks from the former Soviet Union: Education, Ethnicity, Gender
The fall of the Soviet Union and the political and economic problems that followed the emergence of the post-Soviet republics forced many women to migration in a period of feminisation of migration due to global economic and social shifts. Following the biography of two ethnic Greek women from Georg...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Oradea, Research Centre on Identity and Migration Studies-RCIMI
2015-05-01
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| Series: | Journal of Identity and Migration Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://e-migration.ro/jims/Vol9_No1_2015/JIMS_Vol9_No1_2015_pp_69_87_SIDERI.pdf |
| Summary: | The fall of the Soviet Union and the political and economic problems that followed the emergence of the post-Soviet republics forced many women to migration in a period of feminisation of migration due to global economic and social shifts. Following the biography of two ethnic Greek women from Georgia and Russia, the paper traces the transformations of their social and cultural capital based on ethnicity, gender and education into transnational social capital. The paper uses the idea of transnational social capital in order to examine the ways past networks and memberships or skills were reassessed and transformed or even expanded as part of the post-socialist family planning. |
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| ISSN: | 1843-5610 1843-5610 |