Based on vivid and illuminating ethnographic research from both east and west Europe, this book investigates the relationship between geopolitical and physical borders and ideological, classificatory boundaries, highlighting bordering process, and showing how the two often operate in tandem in the regulation of reproduction, care and intimacy.
This is a book about gender and reproduction, movement and migration, and boundaries and borders. We look at boundaries both in terms of geopolitical borders, across which people and things cross, and which are regulated by states, and of ideological or conceptual/classificatory borders, which are also often developed and imposed from above. Based on ethnographies from both east and west Europe, our contributors highlight and elaborate on the parallels between these two kinds of borders, showing how they overlap and mutually reinforce each other. The book contains a range of vivid and original ethnographic chapters which will capture the imagination of anyone interested in gendered migration, policies of inclusion and exclusion, and regulation of reproduction and intimacy. Underpinning the range of case studies discussed by the contributors is an overall concern with regulation in terms of law, policy and ideology.
