The important role women play in the process of migration to the Western bloc - and in particular to Southern Europe where they often find jobs in the domestic service, tourist or sex industries - has been increasingly recognized.

Acknowledgements, List of contributors, 1 Introduction: Women on the Move in Southern Europe, 2 Metaphors of Home: Gendering New Migrations to southern Europe, 3 Filipino and Albanian Women Migrant Workers in Greece: Multiple Layers of Oppression, 4 The Making of Periphractic Spaces: The Case of Albanian Undocumented Female Migrants in the Sex Industry of Athens, 5 Female Migrants in Italy: Coping in a Country of New Migration, 6 Migrant Women in Italy: National Trends and Local Perspectives, 7 Organizing Domestic Workers in Italy: The Challenge of Gender, Class and Ethnicity, 8 Female Birds of Passage: Leaving and Settling in Spain, 9 The Position and Status of Migrant Women in Spain, 10 Trading Intimacy for Liberty: British Women on the Costa del Sol, Index

Floya Anthias University of Greenwich Gabriella Lazaridis University of Dundee