Gender, migration, and domestic service / / edited by Janet Henshall Momsen

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.4/8164046
• Soggetto topico: Women household employees; Women foreign workers; Women immigrants; Emigration and immigration law
• Altri autori: MomsenJanet Henshall
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender, migration, and domestic service
• ISBN: 1-134-65565-7; 0-203-26344-8; 1-280-05660-6; 0-203-45250-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910172255003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge international studies of women and place ; ; 1.