Empowering migrant women : why agency and rights are not enough / / Leah Briones
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| Autore: |
Briones Leah
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| Titolo: |
Empowering migrant women : why agency and rights are not enough / / Leah Briones
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| Pubblicazione: | London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 331.408624 |
| 331.4089/9921 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Women migrant labor - Philippines |
| Foreign workers, Philippine | |
| Note generali: | First published 2009 by Ashgate Pub. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; Glossary; PART I: Victims or Victors? Filipina Domestic Workers in Paris and Hong Kong; 1 Capability and International Labor Migration for Domestic Work; 2 Development: The Structural Context of Global Domestic Work Migration; PART II: Agency and Filipina Overseas Domestic Work; 3 Empty Agency: The Oppressed Third World Woman; 4 Beyond Rights: Embodying and Empowering Agency; PART III: Agency, Capability and Filipina Overseas Domestic Workers; 5 The FODW Institution |
| 6 A Capability Approach to Agency7 Agency, Capability and the Migrant Domestic Worker; PART IV: Conclusion; 8 A Capable Agency Approach: Livelihood, Resources and Human Rights; Appendices; Appendix 1 Respondents' Profiles; Appendix 2 Profiles of NGOs and Associations Contacted during Fieldwork; Appendix 3 Typical Migration Cycle of a Migrant Worker; Appendix 4 RESPECT-Migrant Domestic Workers Charter of Rights: Rights, Equality, Solidarity, Power, Europe, Cooperation, Today; Appendix 5 Interview Schedule (English Version); Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Based on insights from Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong, this volume breaks through the polarized thinking and migration-centric policy action on the protection of migrant women domestic workers from abuse to link migrants' rights and victimization with livelihood, migration and development. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Empowering migrant women |
| ISBN: | 1-317-14415-5 |
| 1-315-57939-1 | |
| 1-282-05462-7 | |
| 9786612054624 | |
| 0-7546-9667-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910782811803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Gender in a global/local world.