Artikelomschrijving
The introduction to ‘A Seventh Man’ expresses the hope for a separate book about the experiences of female guest workers. Bertien van Manen was inspired by this and made her series ‘Vrouwen te gast’ in the 1970’s. In a fairly formal and distant manner she shows the female labour migrants or the wives of labour migrants who came to the Netherlands in the context of family reunification. Turkish, Moroccan, Tunisian, Spanish, Yugoslavian and Italian women were photographed in their strugg
