International Mobility, Erotic Plasticity and Eastern European Migrations

Martina Cvajner
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Martina Cvajner: Trento University, Italy

Migration Letters, 2019, vol. 16, issue 4, 513-520

Abstract: When individuals cross a border and settle in a new social environment, they become migrants. People come here to work, improve the family conditions, restore a lost status. They work, send remittances, strive to adjust their legal status, learn how to cope with a new way of living. But they also make new friends, new lovers, reunite families. They also encounter new sexual cultures, new erotic narratives and norms. Migration is consequently a good test for contemporary theories of erotic plasticity. Are adult migrants, that have acquired and practised for decades a given erotic habitus, able to change it in depth during emigration? And which are, if any, the dimensions of these change? Eastern European women pioneers in Italy – women who have migrated alone, outside of any recruitment program, to areas with no previous history of immigration from their lands – provide a fascinating case of sexual change.

Keywords: Erotic plasticity; female migration; Eastern European migrations; lovescapes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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