Everyday Invisibility
The Lives of African Women in Greece
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2026
294 pages
978-1-83695-297-8 (ISBN)
Description
In the wake of Greece's 2008 economic collapse, African women in Athens navigated intensified discrimination shaped by the intersecting forces of gender, race and migration status. This feminist ethnography investigates how processes of racialization intersect with gender and migration status to produce complex forms of disadvantage. This book argues that gendered racialization renders these women not only invisible but also hyper-visible in stereotypical ways that heighten their exposure to discrimination and precarity. Through everyday survival tactics, home-making practices and collective mobilization, these women resist exclusion and marginalization. Acting individually and collectively, they work to improve material conditions and gain social intelligibility, ultimately challenging normative boundaries of belonging in contemporary Greece.
Reviews / Votes
"This is a very intriguing book and I believe it taps into an understudied area as regards to the specific group and issues of racialization in Greece." * Anastasia Christou, Middlesex UniversityMore details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index; 20 Illustrations
File size
4,12 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-83695-297-8 (9781836952978)
DOI
10.3167/9781836952985
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Viki Zaphiriou-Zarifi has over 15 years of experience in gender, migration and development across South Asia, Africa and Europe. She was a runner up for the Audre Rapoport Prize for Scholarship on Gender and Human Rights at the University of Texas.
Content
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Moving Migrant Women's Experiences from the Margins to the Centre
Chapter 1. Encounters with the Immigration Regime: Documents, Status Fluidity and Abjectification
Chapter 2. Everyday Racism
Chapter 3. Economic Survival: Tactics of Making Do
Chapter 4. Home and Belonging
Chapter 5. Collective Mobilization: 'United We Stand'
Conclusion: Navigating (In)Visibility: The Struggle for Livable Life
References
Index
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Moving Migrant Women's Experiences from the Margins to the Centre
Chapter 1. Encounters with the Immigration Regime: Documents, Status Fluidity and Abjectification
Chapter 2. Everyday Racism
Chapter 3. Economic Survival: Tactics of Making Do
Chapter 4. Home and Belonging
Chapter 5. Collective Mobilization: 'United We Stand'
Conclusion: Navigating (In)Visibility: The Struggle for Livable Life
References
Index
