04033nam 2200649Ia 450 991017225500332120230422044306.01-134-65565-70-203-26344-81-280-05660-60-203-45250-X(CKB)1000000000250209(EBL)180251(OCoLC)229988297(SSID)ssj0000297285(PQKBManifestationID)11224580(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000297285(PQKBWorkID)10347015(PQKB)10808719(MiAaPQ)EBC180251(EXLCZ)99100000000025020919990107d1999 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGender, migration, and domestic service /edited by Janet Henshall MomsenLondon ;New York Routledge19991 online resource (328 p.)Routledge international studies of women and place ;1Description based upon print version of record.0-415-51054-6 0-415-19067-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 EUROPE7 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 Goriška borderland region of Slovenia; Part IV AFRICA; 11 'HOME IS WHERE THE CHILDREN ARE': A qualitative study of migratory domestic workers in Mmotla village, South Africa; 12 WORKING IN THE CITY: The case of migrant women in Swaziland's domestic service sector; Part V ASIA13 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; INDEXThis 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.Routledge international studies of women and place ;1.Women household employeesCase studiesWomen foreign workersCase studiesWomen immigrantsCase studiesEmigration and immigration lawWomen household employeesWomen foreign workersWomen immigrantsEmigration and immigration law.331.4/8164046Momsen Janet Henshall148741MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910172255003321Gender, migration, and domestic service2141376UNINA