Abstract (may include machine translation)
A 24-year–old Roma woman is living with her husband, his grandmother and their four children in a small village in northern Hungary and the family does not have enough food for regular meals…. An elderly woman in Bucharest is shivering in a cold apartment because her pension does not cover the heating bill… A divorced mother of two in a rural town in Russia works a full time job as an elementary school teacher but does not make enough to be able to buy medication for her son… A young Polish woman on maternity leave with her first child, married to an unemployed assembly line worker, lives in the home of an ailing elderly aunt who she takes care of in exchange for the use of her apartment…. Young women from all over Eastern Europe line up along the major truck routes to Germany send money back home to feed their families. These are the faces of poverty we see around us
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 369-382 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Communist and Post-Communist Studies |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2002 |
Externally published | Yes |