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Record Nr.

UNINA9910141312703321

Autore

Kindler Marta

Titolo

A "risky" business? : Ukrainian migrant women in Warsaw's domestic work sector / / Marta Kindler [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , 2008

ISBN

1-280-66700-1

9786613643933

90-485-1447-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

IMISCOE dissertations

Disciplina

331.544094384

Soggetti

Women foreign workers - Poland - Warsaw

Migration, Internal - Europe

Ukrainians - Poland - Warsaw

Household employees - Poland - Warsaw

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Ukrainian migrant women, migrant domestic work and risk -- 2. Risk, migration and migrant domestic work: Selected theory and research review -- 3. Theoretical approach and research methodology applied in this study -- 4. Ukrainian migrant women's images of risk -- 5. Legal risks of migration and legal risk-balancing strategies -- 6. Risks and risk strategies in migrant domestic work -- 7. Familiar risk: Ukrainian women in the Polish domestic work sector -- Notes -- References

Sommario/riassunto

This book is about migration as a form of risk-taking. Based on Ukrainian women's experiences in the Polish domestic work sector, it presents a new approach to analyse movements of female migrants responding to the demand for household labour around the world. Risks involved in migration and in migrant domestic work are accounted for in detail alongside an analysis of the migration decision-making processes. This study shows how social ties and migrant institutions effectively reduce the otherwise radical asymmetry of power between an individual migrant, the state and an employer. A Risky Business? brings to light the complex risk structures of migrants'



activities and their sophisticated responses to them. With their innovative strategies, migrants challenge government-imposed constraints and thus reduce the risks of migration.