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Feminist Review (1991) 39, 69–84. doi:10.1057/fr.1991.41
Fortress Europe and Migrant Women
Mirjana Morokvasic, Phd, is a sociologist. She holds her degrees from the Universite Rene Descartes Paris V-Sorbonne and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (now Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales). She lectured in social psychology and the sociology of education at the Universite Lille III from 1970-79 and has since been a research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. Most of her work has been in the field of international migration. Her recent studies focused on female migration, and on undocumented labour, and her latest research is a comparative study of entrepreneurial strategies of self-employed immigrant and minority women in five European states. She has authored and edited a number of publications in the field of migration (among others, a special issue of Current Sociology, 1984, and of International Migration Review 1984, and a book on women in migration Emigration und Danach, Stroemfeld, Frankfurt 1987). She is currently conducting research on new migratory movements from Eastern Europe and transnationalization of networks at the Freie Universitat Berlin. She is also co-ordinating a comparative research investigation on East-West/South-North migrations in Europe within the Migration Programme of the European Co-ordination Centre for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences, Vienna.
I would like to thank Barbara Einhorn for her encouragement, insightful comments and patience.
Mirjana Morokvasic
