Julietta Steinhauer gives a working paper on 'Women, migration and the sacred. The evidence from the sanctuary of the Syrian gods on Delos (166-88 BCE)'

Demographic statistics from Greek cemeteries reveal that up to half of the migrant population in the Hellenistic period was female1. Yet the only comprehensive studies of the migration of individuals in antiquity are of male adults. In fact, the current communis opinio seems to assume that women, due to the dangers of mobility and ‘social cageing’ were much more constrained in their mobility than male individuals. This, while being partly true, has dissuaded scholars from examining more closely the material recording female migrants. In this article I propose reassessing the evidence by conducting a case study on the migrant experience of women on Delos during the second period of the Athenian occupation (166-88 BCE).

Tanja Visic is presenting a working paper on 'Ethnography of living arrangements, informal work and the transnational care: Experiences of domestic workers from the former Yugoslavia in Germany'

The main objective of the doctoral research project is to examine the phenomenon of care and domestic work from a perspective that combines a macro-level and micro-level using ethnographic approach based on case studies, thick descriptions and perspectives from the actor’s points of view. The text you are reading is doctoral dissertation description which is divided into five parts. The first part introduces the subject of research, main research questions and information about fieldwork that has been conducted so far. The next two sections outline main theoretical debates around domestic and care work within feminist theorization of care work, migration and globalization studies. In the fourth and fifth section I contextualize previously mentioned debates within Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav female labour migration indicating the research gaps in the field and potential contributions of my research project. Next two parts will inform you about research questions, levels of analysis, approach to the research and concepts which will be applied in the study. In the last part I will present multiple practices of data collection known as ethnography I use in the research, and shortly introduce the methodology, namely the challenges of feminist ethnography while focusing on production of knowledge about women lives in specific socio-cultural contexts.