Caring for the 'Holy Land' [[electronic resource] ] : Filipina domestic workers in Israel / / Claudia Liebelt
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Liebelt Claudia
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| Titolo: |
Caring for the 'Holy Land' [[electronic resource] ] : Filipina domestic workers in Israel / / Claudia Liebelt
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 331.4/8164089992105694 |
| Soggetto topico: | Household employees - Israel |
| Women foreign workers - Israel | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Israel Emigration and immigration |
| Philippines Emigration and immigration | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | CARING FOR THE 'HOLY LAND'; EASA Series; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Israeli Migration Regime: On Foreign Workers and Migrants; Chapter 2. Transnational Female Lives; Chapter 3. Caring for the 'Holy Land'; Chapter 4. On Weekends, Together: The Making and Unmaking of a Filipino Community; Chapter 5. Feeling Manila, Living in Hiding and Appropriating the Black Part of the 'White City': Filipinos in Tel Aviv; Chapter 6. Global Dreaming; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In Israel, as in numerous countries of the global North, Filipina women have been recruited in large numbers for domestic work, typically as live-in caregivers for the elderly. The case of Israel is unique in that the country has a special significance as the 'Holy Land' for the predominantly devout Christian Filipina women and is at the center of an often violent conflict, which affects Filipinos in many ways. In the literature, migrant domestic workers are often described as being subject to racial discrimination, labour exploitation and exclusion from mainstream society. Here, the author pr |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Caring for the 'Holy Land |
| ISBN: | 1-283-39513-4 |
| 9786613395139 | |
| 0-85745-262-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910461566403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
EASA series ; ; v. 17.