Gender, Migration and Domestic Service

ISBN-13: 9780415190671 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 328 str.

Janet H. Momsen

Opis

This text examines a range of migration patterns which have arisen, both on a national and international scale, exposing the tensions and difficulties which arise from this kind of movement. These include legal issues, both in terms of immigration laws and the contractual agreements (or lack or them) available to domestic workers; cultural and language diversities and barriers; the impact of the disruption to families caused by females moving to live-in employment and thus away from the family home; and empowerment issues on two levels - where the employer experiences an increase in status from employing domestic workers, and where the domestic worker experiences a change in status by contributing to the family income, or by their workplace providing an arena for social interaction which would otherwise be unavailable. Case studies are taken from Europe, North America, South America, the Caribbean, South Asia, South-East Asia and Africa and are based on fieldwork using both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Recenzje

"The voices of migrant women come through very clearly, interwoven with comprehensive data and analysis" Anti-Slavery Reporter Jan 2000

"For anyone with a professional interest in women's studies, the global phenomenon of female migration, and the reality of the lives of migrant domestic workers, this is a must have." - Anti-Slavery Reporter Jan 2000

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Maids on the Move, Janet Henshall Momsen; Part 1 North America; Chapter 2 Is this Canada?; Chapter 3 Jamaican Domestics, Filipina Housekeepers and English Nannies, Bernadette Stiell, Kim England; Chapter 4 Making Maids, Doreen J. Mattingly; Part 2 South America; Chapter 5 Race and Domestic Service, Sarah A. Radcliffe; Chapter 6 Transcending Gendered Boundaries, Katina Pappas-DeLuca; Part 3 Europe; Chapter 7 Overseas Domestic Workers in the European Union, Bridget Anderson; Chapter 8 The Role of Ethnicity in Shaping the Domestic Employment Sector in Britain, Rosie Cox; Chapter 9 Cinderella Need not Apply, Rekha Narula; Chapter 10 Domestic Work Abroad, Ana Barbi?, Inga Miklav?i?-Brezigar; Part 4 Africa; Chapter 11 ‘Home is where the Children are’, Tessa le Roux; Chapter 12 Working in the City, Miranda Miles; Part 5 Asia; Chapter 13 Interlinking Trajectories, Parvati Raghuram; Chapter 14 Maids in Space, Munira Ismail; Chapter 15 ‘Learning the ways of the Priyayi’, Rebecca Elmhirst; Chapter 16 Foreign Domestic Helpers in Hong Kong and their Role in Childcare Provision, Vicky C.W. Tam; Chapter 17 Singapore Women and Foreign Domestic Workers, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Shirlena Huang; Conclusion, Janet Henshall Momsen;

O autorze

Janet Henshall Momsen is a Professor of Geography in the Department of Human and Community Development, University of California, Davis. In 1988 Professor Momsen founded the Gender Commission of the International Geographical Union and is currently a Director of the Association of Women in Development.