The Trap of Proximity Violence

Ignazia Bartholini is Associate Professor of Sociology at Palermo University and an RC 32 (Women and Society) board member of ISA (International Sociological Association). In the last decade she has acted as visiting professor to some European universities. Her research focuses on gender-based violence and social policies for women. In the context of the research reported here, she was principal investigator of the many international research projects involved as well as being the author of numerous essays on the topic of migration, poverty, education where theoretical reflection and the hard facts of empirical investigation are combined. The terminological meaning of "proximity violence" as a particular form of violence against women is "hers". She focuses on the situational and cultural context correlations which migrants but also western women are victims

Chapter 1. Violence and proximity violence. Links and interpretative developments.- Chapter 2. Deception and abuse: manifold instances of proximity violence against Sub-Saharan women.- Chapter 3. Human Trafficking: the viscous link between vulnerability and proximity violence.- Chapter 4. Nostalgia and proximity violence: daily life and regressive mestizament.- Chapter 5. Violence through words: cultural aspects and performative agency.- Chapter 6. European Mediterranean women and the "showdown" between public emancipation and private self-oppression.