Il romanzo appare al lettore, fin dalle prime pagine, una confessione intima nella quale l’autrice si mette a nudo raccontando le proprie esperienze ed il suo controverso rapporto con l’eroina, che è una sostanza infida poiché capace di sollevare ed in modo repentino far precipitare nel baratro la scrittrice a più riprese. L’autrice passa in rassegna le varie esperienze di vita vissuta, con uno stile semplice, chiaro e diretto che il pubblico avrà la possibilità di seguire ed apprezzare ne...

A volte pensiamo all’amore. Spesso si è davvero innamorati. A volte amiamo semplicemente l’amore stesso. In ogni caso non è mai banale sognare o esprimere sensazioni e emozioni, anche se non provate, ma solo riemerse dalla profondità della nostra anima. è bello e dolce “naufragare in questo mare” di passioni, per abbandonarsi e provare brividi piacevoli talvolta dimenticati. Ho socchiuso gli occhi lieta di regalarvi ruscelli di gioia, con la speranza di far battere nuovamente quei cuori a ...

This open access short reader offers a systematic overview of the scholarly debate on the experiences of migrant domestic workers at a global level, in the past as well as in present time. It tackles the nexus between migration and domestic work with a multi-layered approach. The book looks into the issue of (paid) domestic work in migratory contexts by investigating the feminization of migration, thereby considering the larger framework within which this specific phenomenon takes place. T...

Unico sogno ad occhi completamente e liberamente svegli… Desiderato, atteso, amato fin da prima della sua nascita e che follemente amerò per sempre!!

The COVID pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around the world, and the effect of the devaluation of care on workers, families, and communities. In ...

Exploring the performance by immigrants of domestic and care work in European households, this book places the employer centre-stage, examining the role of the employer and his or her agents in securing the balance between work, family and welfare needs, as well as investigating both who the employers are and the nature of their relationships with migrant workers. With attention to the dynamics of inequality, as class, ethnicity and gender become intertwined in a location that is at once h...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.Drawing from the EU-funded DomEQUAL research project across 9 countries in Europe, South America and Asia, this comparative study explores the conditions of domestic workers around the world and the campaigns they are conducting to improve their labour rights.The book showcases how domestic workers’ movements put ‘intersectionality in action’ in representing the interest of various marginalized social groups from mi...

This open access book dissects the current narratives of ‘vulnerability’ in asylum laws and policies, by unpacking the meanings, productions, and performances, of ‘vulnerability’ in different contexts, from countries of first asylum in the Global South to Europe and Canada. It discusses how the increased reliance on ‘vulnerability’ to guide states’ replies to refugee movements improves refugee protection, while also generating contestations and exclusionary effects that may cause harm. Bas...