Female-led migration is usually explained by a “push-pull†framework. Poverty “pushes†Third World women into domestic labor in First World countries. In this paper I broaden this framework by thinking of gender as “constitutive†of migration and placing the...

This paper is an anthropological exploration of the concept of place, focusing on a city in Ukraine, which the author identifies as Chelnochovsk-na-Dniestre. Globalization and international boundaries magnify the sense of importance of “place†in Chelnochovsk, where there is a strong...