Migration And Domestic Work
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Migration And Domestic Work
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Author : Professor Helma Lutz
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2012-12-28
Migration And Domestic Work written by Professor Helma Lutz and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-28 with Social Science categories.
Domestic work has become highly relevant on a local and global scale. Until a decade ago, domestic workers were rare in European households; today they can be found working for middle-class families and single people, for double or single parents as well as for the elderly. Performing the three C's – cleaning, caring and cooking – domestic workers offer their woman power on a global market which Europe has become part of. This global market is now considered the largest labour market for women world wide and it has triggered the feminization of migration. This volume brings together contributions by European and US based researchers to look at the connection between migration and domestic work on an empirical and theoretical level. The contributors elaborate on the phenomenon of 'domestic work' in late modern societies by discussing different methodological and theoretical approaches in an interdisciplinary setting. The volume also looks at the gendered aspects of domestic work; it asks why the re-introduction of domestic workers in European households has become so popular and will argue that this phenomenon is challenging gender theories. This is a timely book and will be of interest to academics and students in the fields of migration, gender and European studies.
Gender Migration And Domestic Service
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Author : Jacqueline Andall
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2000
Gender Migration And Domestic Service written by Jacqueline Andall and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Social Science categories.
Exploring the experiences of black women in Italy from the 1970s to the 1990s, this book shows that while the employment of migrants as live-in domestic workers led to forms of social marginalization, it paradoxically allowed Italian women to express new social identities within and outside the family.
Gender Migration And Domestic Service
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Author : Janet Henshall Momsen
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1999
Gender Migration And Domestic Service written by Janet Henshall Momsen and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Science categories.
This book examines a wide range of migration patterns which have arisen, and exposes the tensions and difficulties including: * legal and empowerment issues * cultural and language diversities and barriers * the impact of live-in employment. The book features case studies taken from Europe, South and North America, the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa and uses original fieldwork using quantitative and qualitative methods.
Maid To Queer
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Author : Francisca Yuenki Lai
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-03
Maid To Queer written by Francisca Yuenki Lai and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-03 with Social Science categories.
Maid to Queer is the first book about Asian female migrant workers who develop same-sex relationships in a host city. Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews with Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong, the book explores the meanings of same-sex relationships to these migrant women. Instead of searching for reasons to explain why they engage in a same-sex relationship, this book provides an ethnographic perspective by addressing their Sunday activities and considering how migration policies and the practices of Hong Kong people unintentionally produce alternative sexuality and desires for them. The author contrasts the migrant experiences of same-sex relationships with the Western discourse that individuals carry a strong sense of sexual identification prior to migration; same-sex desires among Indonesian domestic workers are often not realized until they leave home. Addressing the changes from maid to queer, this book documents the intersections of domestic work, labor migration, race, and religion on the sexual subject formation, specifically how Indonesian women negotiate heteronormativity and remake a space for their love, sex, and intimacy. For those interested in lesbian studies, Asian labor migration, sexual citizenship, and queer migration, this ethnography fills an important gap in explaining how the feminization of international migration and the constraints imposed on live-in domestic workers unintentionally become productive possibilities of queerness and normativity. “Maid to Queer combines insights from migration studies with those of LGBT studies, contributing to both. It examines the sexual subjectivities and shifting sexualities of these domestic workers, in relation to both migrant labor policies and the anxieties and practices of their employers in Hong Kong. Lai’s book is very enticing to read.” —Saskia Wieringa, University of Amsterdam “This is the first book I know of exploring sexuality among domestic workers. Lai shows that sexuality is relative to both imagination and opportunity, and that it can change over time. Women may desire women, or they may not; context shapes this desire and how this desire plays out.” —Sharyn Davies, Monash University
Doing The Dirty Work
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Author : Bridget Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 2000-02
Doing The Dirty Work written by Bridget Anderson and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-02 with Business & Economics categories.
There has been a tendency amongst feminists to see domestic work as the great leveller, a common burden imposed on all women equally by patriarchy. This unique study of migrant domestic workers in the North uncovers some uncomfortable facts about the race and class aspects of domestic oppression. Based on original research, it looks at the racialisation of paid domestic labour in the North - a phenomenon which challenges feminsim and political theory at a fundamental level. The book opens with an exploration of the public/private divide and an overview of the debates on women and power. The author goes on to provide a map of employment patterns of migrant women in domestic work in the North; she describes the work they perform, their living and working conditions and their employment relations. A chapter on the US explores the connections between slavery and contemporary domestic service while a section on commodification examines the extent to which migrant domestic workers are not selling their labour but their whole personhood. The book also looks at the role of the Other in managing dirt, death and pollution and the effects of the feminisation of the labour market - as middle class white women have greater presence in the public sphere, they are more likely to push responsibility for domestic work onto other women. In its depiction of the treatment of women from the South by women in the North, the book asks some difficult questions about the common bond of womanhood. Packed with information on the numbers of migrant women working as domestics, the racism, immigration or employment legislation that constrains their lives, and testimonies from the workers themselves, this is the most comprehensive study of migrant domestic workers available.
Maid To Order In Hong Kong
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Author : Nicole Constable
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2007
Maid To Order In Hong Kong written by Nicole Constable and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Business & Economics categories.
"An ethnography with a twist, in that it portrays the domestic workers in their own terms, speaking for themselves through their experiences and reactions, including the strategies of resistance developed by the workers." China Journal"
Gender Migration And Domestic Service
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Author : Janet Henshall Momsen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-05-03
Gender Migration And Domestic Service written by Janet Henshall Momsen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-03 with Emigration and immigration law categories.
This work examines a wide range of migration patterns which have arisen, both on a national and international scale, exposing the tensions and difficulties which arise from this kind of movement.
Scripts Of Servitude
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Author : Beatriz P. Lorente
language : en
Publisher: Critical Language and Literacy
Release Date : 2018
Scripts Of Servitude written by Beatriz P. Lorente and has been published by Critical Language and Literacy this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Language and transnational domestic workers -- The making of "workers of the world": language and the labor brokerage state -- Assembling the "supermaid": language and communication skills for "vulnerable occupations"--Marketing domestic workers: maid agencies in Singapore -- The English-speaking Other looks back -- Translating selves: the trajectories of transnational Filipino domestic workers -- Conclusion
Migration And Domestic Work
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Author : Sabrina Marchetti
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-08-24
Migration And Domestic Work written by Sabrina Marchetti and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-24 with Social Science categories.
This open access short reader offers a systematic overview of the scholarly debate on the experiences of migrant domestic workers at a global level, in the past as well as in present time. It tackles the nexus between migration and domestic work with a multi-layered approach. The book looks into the issue of (paid) domestic work in migratory contexts by investigating the feminization of migration, thereby considering the larger framework within which this specific phenomenon takes place. The author explains notions such as the “international division of reproductive labor” or “global care chains” which emphasize the inequality in the way care and domestic tasks are distributed today between middle-class women in receiving nations and migrant domestic workers. Moreover, the book shows how women migrating to work in the domestic work and private care sector are facing a complex landscape of migration and labor regulations that are extremely difficult to navigate. At the same time, this issue also addresses employers’ households who cannot find appropriate or affordable care among declining welfare states and national workers reluctant to take the job, whilst legal regulations make difficult to hire a domestic worker who is a third country national. As such this book offers an interesting read to academics, policy makers and all those working in the field.