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Book Synopsis 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.
