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UNINA9910172255003321 |
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Titolo |
Gender, migration, and domestic service / / edited by Janet Henshall Momsen |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-65565-7 |
0-203-26344-8 |
1-280-05660-6 |
0-203-45250-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (328 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge international studies of women and place ; ; 1 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women household employees |
Women foreign workers |
Women immigrants |
Emigration and immigration law |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; GENDER, MIGRATION AND DOMESTIC SERVICE; Copyright; CONTENTS; TABLES; FIGURES; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; 1 MAIDS ON THE MOVE; Part I NORTH AMERICA; 2 IS THIS CANADA?: Domestic workers' experiences in Vancouver, BC; 3 JAMAICAN DOMESTICS, FILIPINA HOUSEKEEPERS AND ENGLISH NANNIES: Representations of Toronto's foreign domestic workers; 4 MAKING MAIDS: United States immigration policy and immigrant domestic workers; Part II SOUTH AMERICA; 5 RACE AND DOMESTIC SERVICE: Migration and identity in Ecuador; 6 TRANSCENDING GENDERED BOUNDARIES: Migration for domestic labour in Chile; Part III EUROPE |
7 OVERSEAS DOMESTIC WORKERS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: Invisible women8 THE ROLE OF ETHNICITY IN SHAPING THE DOMESTIC EMPLOYMENT SECTOR IN BRITAIN; 9 CINDERELLA NEED NOT APPLY: A study of paid domestic work in Paris; 10 DOMESTIC WORK ABROAD: A necessity and an opportunity for rural women from the GorisĖka borderland region of Slovenia; Part IV AFRICA; 11 'HOME IS WHERE THE CHILDREN ARE': A qualitative study of migratory domestic workers in |
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Mmotla village, South Africa; 12 WORKING IN THE CITY: The case of migrant women in Swaziland's domestic service sector; Part V ASIA |
13 INTERLINKING TRAJECTORIES: Migration and domestic work in India14 MAIDS IN SPACE: Gendered domestic labour from Sri Lanka to the Middle East; 15 'LEARNING THE WAYS OF THE PRIYAYI': Domestic servants and the mediation of modernity in Jakarta, Indonesia; 16 FOREIGN DOMESTIC HELPERS IN HONG KONG AND THEIR ROLE IN CHILDCARE PROVISION; 17 SINGAPORE WOMEN AND FOREIGN DOMESTIC WORKERS: Negotiating domestic work and motherhood; CONCLUSION: Future trends and trajectories; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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