| Description |
xiv, 314 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
International studies of women and place.
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| Contents |
1. Maids on the Move / Janet Henshall Momsen -- Pt. I. North America. 2. Is this Canada?: domestic workers' experiences in Vancouver, B.C. / Geraldine Pratt / Philippine Women Centre. 3. Jamaican domestics, Filipina housekeepers and English nannies: representations of Toronto's foreign domestic workers / Bernadette Stiell and Kim England. 4. Making maids: United States immigration policy and immigrant domestic workers / Doreen Mattingly -- Pt. II. South America. 5. Race and domestic service: migration and identity in Ecuador / Sarah A. Radcliffe. 6. Transcending gendered boundaries: migration for domestic labour in Chile / Katina Pappas-Deluca -- Pt. III. Europe. 7. Overseas domestic workers in the European Union: invisible women / Bridget Anderson. 8. The role of ethnicity in shaping the domestic employment sector in Britain / Rosie Cox. 9. Cinderella need not apply: a study of paid domestic work in Paris / Rekha Narula |
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10. Domestic work abroad: a necessity and an opportunity for rural women from the Goriska borderland region of Slovenia / Ana Barbic and Inga Miklavcic-Brezigar -- Pt. IV. Africa. 11. 'Home is where the children are': a qualitative study of migratory domestic workers in Mmotla village, South Africa / Tessa Le Roux. 12. Working in the city: the case of migrant women in Swaziland's domestic service sector / Miranda Miles -- Pt. V. Asia. 13. Interlinking trajectories: migration and domestic work in India / Parvati Raghuram. 14. Maids in space: gendered domestic labour from Sri Lanka to the Middle East / Munira Ismail. 15. 'Learning the ways of the priyayi': domestic servants and the mediation of modernity in Jakarta, Indonesia / Rebecca Elmhirst. 16. Foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong and their role in childcare provision / Vicky C. W. Tam. 17. Singapore women and foreign domestic workers: negotiating domestic work and motherhood / Brenda S. A. Yeoh and Shirlena Huang |
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Conclusion: future trends and trajectories / Janet Henshall Momsen |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women foreign workers -- Case studies.
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Women household employees -- Case studies.
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Women household employees -- Case studies.
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Women foreign workers -- Case studies.
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Women immigrants -- Case studies.
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Emigration and immigration law.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Author |
Momsen, Janet Henshall.
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| LC no. |
99011633 |
| ISBN |
0415190673 : |
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