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Author Santos, Maria Deanna P

Title Human rights and migrant domestic work : a comparative analysis of the socio-legal status of Filipina migrant domestic workers in Canada and Hong Kong / by Maria Deanna P. Santos
Published Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 243 pages)
Series The Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights library ; v. 24
Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights library ; v. 24.
Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABSTRACT; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF ACRONYMS; PROLOGUE; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CHAPTER 2. THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS RELATING TO THE SITUATION OF FILIPINA MDWS; CHAPTER 3. INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS NORMS AND MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS; CHAPTER 4. "GOOD ENOUGH TO WORK, GOOD ENOUGH TO STAY"? CANADA'S LIVE-INCAREGIVER PROGRAM AND ITSQUESTIONABLE FEATURES; CHAPTER 5. SOME ARE LESS EQUAL THAN OTHERS: THE SOCIO-LEGAL STATUS OF FILIPINA MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS IN HONG KONG
CHAPTER 6. A COMPARATIVE SURVEY OF THE SITUATION OF FILIPINA MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS IN CANADA AND HONG KONGCHAPTER 7. EXPLAINING THE INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC ILL-TREATMENT OF FILIPINA MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS: A TWAIL ANALYSIS; CHAPTER 8. THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS: QUO VADIS?; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; ANNEXES
Summary On a general level, this research project concerns ways in which the domestic and international laws relating to the situation of migrant domestic workers (MDWs) are shaped by broader socio-political and economic factors
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-212) and index
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Subject Foreign workers, Filipino -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada
Household employees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada
Human rights -- Canada
Foreign workers, Filipino -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- China -- Hong Kong
Household employees -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- China -- Hong Kong
Human rights -- China -- Hong Kong
Foreign workers, Filipino -- Social conditions
LAW -- Labor & Employment.
Foreign workers, Filipino -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Household employees -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Human rights
Menschenrecht
Migrationspolitik
Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer
Filipina
Canada
China -- Hong Kong
Kanada
Hongkong
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781429453622
1429453621
9789004145276
9004145273
9781433707643
1433707640