Dressing down to fit in: Analyzing (re)orientation processes through stories about Norwegianization

Source at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2018.01.001. This article addresses the relation between gender and social change in the context of east-west migration. Using a feminist phenomenologist and interpretative approach, the analysis shows that Russian female migrants in Northern Norway, although...

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Published in:Women's Studies International Forum
Main Authors: Wara, Tatiana, Munkejord, Mai Camilla
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018
Subjects:
VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200
VDP::Social sciences: 200
Fenomenologi / Fenomenology
Kjønn / Gender
Migrasjon / Migration
Russisk / Russian
The body
Othering
East-west migration
Norway
Northern Norway
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10037/15308
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2018.01.001
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Summary:Source at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2018.01.001. This article addresses the relation between gender and social change in the context of east-west migration. Using a feminist phenomenologist and interpretative approach, the analysis shows that Russian female migrants in Northern Norway, although well-educated and generally well-integrated in the local labor market, often felt that they were on display and judged through their bodies. Their bodily visibility pushed them to make changes regarding their ways of appearing, dressing and in their migration status. We conclude that the migrants' self-consciousness, as well as their various ways of “becoming Norwegianized,” may be conceptualized as an effect of local, gendered stigmatizing processes.

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