Women, Migration and the Exchange of Knowledge from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-first Century

Nicoleta Roman is a researcher at the ‘Nicolae Iorga’ Institute of History of the Romanian Academy and at New Europe College- Institute for Advanced Study, both in Bucharest, Romania. Her research interests revolve around social and economic history, gender and the history of women and children in (pre)modern Romania and Southeastern Europe.Beatrice Zucca Micheletto is a researcher in the Department of Cultures, Politics and Society  at the University of Turin, Italy where she teaches Economic History of Migration. Her research focuses on economic and social history, women and gender history, migration history and labour history of early modern and modern Europe in Italy and France.

• 1. Introduction. Connecting Europe: past and present.- Part I. Circulation of women and knowledge.- 2. West meets East: German women migrants – Spouses of Western European consuls in the port city of Berdyansk in the times of the Russian Empire.- 3. Traveling for work: governesses  in the Baltic provinces of the Russian Empire from the nineteenth century to 1914.- 4. “On the move”. Greek Cypriot migrant women in search of education (mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century).- 5. Rural child welfare, gendered community work, and intersectionality: Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann’s migration to Turkey, 1935-1950.- 6. Women's educational migrations according to the digital (web) archive of the University of Zurich (1860s-1920s).- 7. Slovene servants/domestic workers in Italian towns, in the second half of the nineteenth century and in the twenty-century.- 8. Aspects of emancipation under socialism: Greek refugee women in Eastern Europe, 1950-1990.- 9. ‘Without men?’ Spatial and social (im)mobilites and cultures of migration of Romanian women in Italy (1970-2020) .- Part II. Boundaries in questions: society, economics and identities.- 10. The migration Christian and Jewish and women in Prague in the sixteenth and early seventeenth century.- 11. The conundrum of the Polish-Lithuanian state. The circulation of people and knowledge: gender, ethnicity and religion (fifteenth to eighteenth centuries).- 12. Migration and translation: dowries between the Ottoman and Habsburg empires at the end of the eighteenth century.- 13.The migration of East European women to England and Wales in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and demographic change.- 14. Borderscapes of care in Europe: the case of Czech live-in care workers in Germany.- 15. Women from East Europe to Italy: perspectives from the contemporary age.- 16. What memory for migrant women in Central Europe? Gendered memoryscapes and transcultural histories between pasts and futures.