On the Shoulders of Grandmothers

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Acknowledgments -- Notes on transliteration and participants -- Introduction: gulag vs. Promised land : metaphors of destination and transnational social fields -- Genesis : Ukraine -- Markets, moralities, and motherhood in transition -- Exile : Italy -- Italy's context of reception and connections to Ukraine -- Narratives from the gulag -- Inna: Becoming capitalist in europe -- Tatiana: Sacrificing for motherhood -- Oksana: Talent shows performing family, nation, and ethnicity -- Yuriy: Negotiating post-soviet masculinities -- Lydmyla: A family aspiring to be European -- Social patterns in exile -- Exodus : the United States -- California's context of reception and state-based integration -- Narratives from the Promised land -- Viktoria: Married to the U.S. state -- Dariya: Discovering my capitalist "I" in the United States -- Kateryna: Defining children's success in the Promised land -- Zhanna: Reinventing babushka across migration waves -- Halyna: Undocumented but playing the green card lottery -- Social patterns in exodus -- Conclusion: berehynia femininities, cossack masculinities, and new nationalisms -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index