Migrant domestic workers and family life : international perspectives

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The work Migrant domestic workers and family life : international perspectives represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Migrant domestic workers and family life : international perspectives

Title remainder

international perspectives

Statement of responsibility

edited by Maria Kontos, Glenda Bonifacio

Creator

• Kontos, Maria

Contributor

• Bonifacio, Glenda Tibe, 1963-

Editor

• Kontos, Maria
• Bonifacio, Glenda Tibe, 1963-

Subject

• Women foreign workers -- Social conditions
• Women household employees -- Social conditions
• Work and family
• Women immigrants -- Social conditions

Language

eng

Summary

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. Combining legal, sociological and social policy perspectives, it takes an interdisciplinary approach to international and national legal frameworks, the political economy of globalised reproductive labour, and the experience and coping strategies of migrant domestic and care workers. Highlighting constructed, ideological and imagined responses to life away from home, it offers theoretical, empirical and international perspectives on the right to a family life. Bringing together established and emerging scholars from a variety of academic disciplines, it focuses in particular on the voices of migrant domestic workers and their positioning as active subjects with agency to articulate their needs and claims. --

Member of

• Migration, minorities, and citizenship

Assigning source

Provided by Publisher

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Series statement

Migration, minorities and citizenship