Spatial Mobility and Gender Inequality
Spatial Mobility and Gender Inequality

Summary/Abstract: After the fall of communism many new spaces have opened up – in political, cultural, social, and economic terms. However, the process of ‘opening up’ has affected diverse social groups to a different degree and effect. On the one hand, it has ushered in greater possibilities but, on the other hand, it has erected new economic barriers. The paper explores new patterns of movement and mobility in transitional Bulgarian society from the perspective of gender as reflected in various discourses such as sociological surveys on migrant workers, oral interviews with several generations of women of different ethnic background, as well as fiction and media representations of women on the move. In addition, the newly emerging mobility patterns are studied within the national and transnational space of globalization and Europe integration. The theoretical premises of the paper draw upon sociological theories of inequality as well as feminist theories of identity.

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