Review of: Edeltraud Aubele, Gabriele Pieri (Hg.): Femina Migrans. Frauen in Migrationsprozessen (18.–20. Jahrhundert). Sulzbach im Taunus: Ulrike Helmer Verlag 2011.

Abstract

Parallel societies, risk students, integration difficulties, … - sets of problems such as these dominate the media scene whenever there is talk of migration. Quite often, we are confronted with the image of a headscarf-wearing woman as the female migrant par excellence, who has become the figurative projection surface of our negotiation practice about values of a society that considers itself democratic and liberal. But does something like the migrant even exist? And is migration even such a topical phenomenon as the media, but also the scientific discourse, make us believe? The reviewed conference proceedings, which illustrate the diversity and the long history of female migration processes, can definitely contribute to qualifying the exceptional discourse about migration.