Migrant Domestic Workers and Family Life: International Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781137323545 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 341 str.

Maria Kontos; Glenda Tibe Bonifacio; Maria Kontos

Opis

This timely and innovative book delivers a comprehensive analysis of the non-recognition of the right to a family life of migrant live-in domestic and care workers in Argentina, Canada, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Norway, the Philippines, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, the United States of America, and Ukraine.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Domestic and Care Work of Migrant Women and the Right to Family life; Maria Kontos; Glenda Tibe Bonifacio I. FRAMING LEGALITIES, EMPLOYMENT, AND FAMILY RIGHTS 2. Transnational Domestic Work and Right to Family Life in International and European Law; Dorothee Frings 3. Au pair Arrangement in Norway and Transnational Organization of Care; Mariya Bikova 4. License to Care? Migrant Domestic Workers in Spanish Employment and Family Policy; Elin Peterson 5. Invisibility, Exploitation and Paternalism: Migrant Latina Domestic Workers and Rights to Family Life in Barcelona, Spain; Gabriela Poblet Denti II. PUBLIC DISCOURSE, FAMILY SEPARATION AND REUNIFICATION 6. Growing Up with Migration: Shifting Roles and Responsibilities of Transnational Families of Ukrainian Careworkers in Italy; Olena Fedyuk 7. Family Rights in a Migratory Context: Whose Family Comes First?; Magdalena Díaz Gorfinkiel 8. Live-in Caregivers in Canada: Servitude for Promisory Citizenship and Family Rights; Glenda Tibe Bonifacio III. REMOTE MOTHERING, SURVIVAL STRATEGIES, AND MOBILIZATION 9. Reinventing Intimacy and Identity: Filipina Domestic Workers' Strategies for Coping with Family Separation in Dubai; Julia Lausch 10. Renegotiating Family and Work Arrangements: Paraguayan and Peruvian Domestic Workers in Argentina; Aranzazu Recalde 11. In the Grips of Work/Family Imbalance: Local and Migrant Domestic Workers in Slovenia; Majda Hr enjak; Mojca Pajnik 12. Transnational Family as Resource for Political Mobilization; Valerie Francisco IV. THE METAPHOR OF 'FAMILY MEMBER' 13. Struggling to Make Time for Family: Work and Family Life of Korean-Chinese Institutional Care Workers in South Korea; Seong-gee Um 14. Being a Member of the Family? Meanings and Implications in Paid Migrant Domestic and Care Work in Madrid; Marianne Dobner; Simone Tappert 15. 'Weekend families' of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon; Amrita Pande 16. Right to Family Life and Reciprocity of Care: Prospects for Care of Aging Migrant Carers; Maria Kontos Epilogue: The Meaning of Rights to Family Life; Glenda Tibe Bonifacio; Maria Kontos

O autorze

Mariya Bikova, University of Bergen, Norway Magdalena Díaz Gorfinkiel, Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Marianne Dobner, International Organization for Migration, Austria Olena Fedyuk, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Valerie Francisco, University of Portland, United States of America Dorothee Frings, Goethe University, Germany Majda Hr enjak, Peace Institute, Slovenia Julia Lausch, University of Wyoming, United States of America Mojca Pajnik, University of Ljubljana and Peace Institute, Slovenia Amrita Pande, University of Cape Town, South Africa Elin Peterson, Stockholm University, Sweden Gabriela Poblet Denti, University of Barcelona, Spain Aranzazu Recalde, McGill University, Canada Simone Tappert, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland Seong-gee Um, University of Montreal, Canada