Women Migrant Workers: Ethical, Political and Legal Problems

ISBN-13: 9780415534079 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 284 str.

Zahra Meghani; Lisa Eckenwiler

Opis

This volume makes the case for the fair treatment of female migrant workers from the global South who are employed in wealthy liberal democracies as care workers, domestic workers, home health workers, and farm workers. An international panel of contributors provide analyses of the ethical, political, and legal harms suffered by female migrant workers, based on empirical data and case studies, along with original and sophisticated analyses of the complex of systemic, structural factors responsible for the harms experienced by women migrant workers. The book also proposes realistic and original solutions to the problem of the unjust treatment of women migrant workers, such as social security systems that are transnational and tailored to meet the particular needs of different groups of international migrant workers.

Spis treści

Foreword: Protecting the Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Migrant Women Workers  Maria Jose Alcalá.  Acknowledgments  1. Women on the Move  Zahra Meghani  Part One: Circumstances of Injustice  2. "Her Life Within the Home": The Construction of Gender and Female International Migrant Workers in the Republic of Ireland  Graham Finlay and JoAnne M. Mancini  3. Trapped in a Web of Immigration and Employment Laws: Female Undocumented Home Health Workers in the US  Zahra Meghani  Part Two: Uncaring Development Paradigms  4. On a Collision Course: Millennium Development Goals and Mothers’ Migration  Delali Badasu and Sonya Michel  5. Global Care Chains: Reshaping the Hidden Foundations of an Unsustainable Development Model  Amaia Pérez Orozco  Part Three: Unjust Social Security Systems  6. International Migrant Domestic Workers, National Welfare States and Transnational Social Security Arrangements  Sarah van Walsum  7. Gendered Policies, Single Mothers and Transnational Motherhood: Mexican Female Migrant Farmworkers in Canada  Ofelia Becerril  Part Four: Care for Care Workers  8. "A Place to Call Home": The Catholic Church and Female Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore  Theresa Devasahayam  Part Five: The Way Forward  9. Transnationalization and the Capitalization of Labor: Female Foreign Domestic Workers  Stuart Rosewarne  10. Hopes and Expectations Dashed: Migrant Women, the Informal Welfare State and Women’s Labor Force Participation in Greece  Antigone Lyberaki

O autorze

Zahra Meghani is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rhode Island.