Circular Migration of Two Generations

Circular Migration of Two Generations: Ukrainian Female Labor Migration to Italy

My research looks at one of the most popular survival strategies in post-Soviet Ukraine, i.e. temporary labor migration abroad.
I look here at the ruptures and coping mechanisms are triggered and created by transnational and feminized migration. I ask: How does the arrival of a new generation of migrants change relations, hierarchies and burdens within the migrants' transnational fields? What kind of dynamics does a “second generation” bring along; what new ways of coping with ruptures as well as new challenges are being created? Based on a year of field work in Naples and Bologna, I explore the transformation of sexuality, shifts in the social age of migrants, new subjectivities and an intricate pattern of pragmatic, emotional, personal and “for-better-good” decisions that shape migrant women’s choices.