Migrant Women And Work

Author : Megha Amrith,Nina Sahraoui
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351846219

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Gender, Work and Migration by Megha Amrith,Nina Sahraoui Pdf

Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315225210 While the feminisation of transnational migrant labour is now a firmly ingrained feature of the contemporary global economy, the specific experiences and understandings of labour in a range of gendered sectors of global and regional labour markets still require comparative and ethnographic attention. This book adopts a particular focus on migrants employed in sectors of the economy that are typically regarded as marginal or precarious – domestic work and care work in private homes and institutional settings, cleaning work in hospitals, call centre labour, informal trade – with the goal of understanding the aspirations and mobilities of migrants and their families across generations in relation to questions of gender and labour. Bringing together rich, fieldwork-based case studies on the experiences of migrants from the Philippines, Bolivia, Ecuador, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Mauritius, Brazil and India, among others, who live and work in countries within Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America, Gender, Work and Migration goes beyond a unique focus on migration to explore the implications of gendered labour patterns for migrants’ empowerment and experiences of social mobility and immobility, their transnational involvement, and wider familial and social relationships.

Author : United Nations
Publisher : UN
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCLA:L0108507328

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Crushed Hopes by United Nations Pdf

This report is a collective publication comprising a review of international literature on the subject of migrant deskilling and underemployment from a gender perspective and three empirical case studies from Switzerland, Canada and the United Kingdom. It explores the disproportionate difficulties skilled migrant women can face in transferring their skills and finding employment commensurate with their education when relocating to a new country. The case studies highlight situations in which migratory status and labour market dynamics can combine to constrain skilled and highly skilled migrant women to low-skilled occupations despite their often high human capital. They also analyse the impact that such occupational downgrading can have on migrant women's well-being and the strategies that women can adopt to regain a professional status.

Author : Anuja Agrawal
Publisher : SAGE Publishing India
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789352805181

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Migrant Women and Work by Anuja Agrawal Pdf

Papers presented at the International Conference on Women and Migration in Asia, held at New Delhi in December 2003.

Author : Sonya Michel,Ito Peng
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319550862

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Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care by Sonya Michel,Ito Peng Pdf

This book explores how around the world, women’s increased presence in the labor force has reorganized the division of labor in households, affecting different regions depending on their cultures, economies, and politics; as well as the nature and size of their welfare states and the gendering of employment opportunities. As one result, the authors find, women are increasingly migrating from the global south to become care workers in the global north. This volume focuses on changing patterns of family and gender relations, migration, and care work in the countries surrounding the Pacific Rim—a global epicenter of transnational care migration. Using a multi-scalar approach that addresses micro, meso, and macro levels, chapters examine three domains: care provisioning, the supply of and demand for care work, and the shaping and framing of care. The analysis reveals that multiple forms of global inequalities are now playing out in the most intimate of spaces.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Women
ISBN : UCLA:L0102912664

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Working to Prevent and Address Violence Against Women Migrant Workers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Zahra Meghani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317387640

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Women Migrant Workers by Zahra Meghani Pdf

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.

Author : Sophie Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000539691

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Protecting the Rights of Women Migrant Domestic Workers by Sophie Henderson Pdf

Migrant women across Asia disproportionately work in precarious, insecure, and informal employment sectors that are subject to few regulations, pay low wages, and expose women to harm, of which domestic work is among the most prevalent. This book uses the cases of the Philippines and Sri Lanka to develop a comprehensive, intersectional, rights-based approach to better protect women migrant domestic workers against exploitation. As accounts of exploitation, gender-based violence, torture, and death among migrant domestic workers increase, the recognition and defence of their human and labour rights is an urgent necessity. The Philippines and Sri Lanka are two of the leading labour-sending states of women domestic workers in Asia, and their economies have become increasingly dependent on the remittances they send back home. Drawing on extensive original research this book argues that these two sending states are guilty of structural violence by sustaining a network of institutions, policies and practices, which serve to systematically disadvantage and discriminate against women migrant domestic workers. The research covers the entire migration process, from pre-departure, through to overseas employment, followed by return and reintegration. This book’s innovative application of structural violence theory as a way to investigate the role of state institutions in labour-sending countries in the Global South will be of interest to researchers from across the fields of migration studies, gender studies, human rights law, and Asian Studies.

Author : Leah Briones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317144151

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Empowering Migrant Women by Leah Briones Pdf

Based on insights from Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong, this volume breaks through the polarized thinking and migration-centric policy action on the protection of migrant women domestic workers from abuse to link migrants' rights and victimization with livelihood, migration and development. The book contextualizes agency and rights in the workers' capability to secure a livelihood in the global political economy and is instrumental in making the problem of migrant women workers' empowerment both a migration and development agenda. The volume is essential reading for social scientists, bureaucrats and non-governmental political activists interested in the protection of the rights and livelihoods of migrants. It will also appeal to migration and feminist scholars who have yet to adopt the contribution of critical development studies in the analysis of low-skilled female labour migration.

Author : Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136949944

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Migration, Domestic Work and Affect by Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez Pdf

Drawing upon several years of research in Germany, the UK, Spain, and Austria, and over 100 interviews with Peruvian, Ecuadorian and Chilean women working as domestic and care workers, this book examines hitherto unexplored areas of the interpersonal relationships between domestic and care workers and their employers.

Author : Errol Mendes,Sakunthala Srighanthan
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780776617800

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Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China by Errol Mendes,Sakunthala Srighanthan Pdf

Confronting Discrimination and Inequality in China focuses on the most challenging areas of discrimination and inequality in China, including discrimination faced by HIV/AIDS afflicted individuals, rural populations, migrant workers, women, people with disabilities, and ethnic minorities. The Canadian contributors offer rich regional, national, and international perspectives on how constitutions, laws, policies, and practices, both in Canada and in other parts of the world, battle discrimination and the conflicts that rise out of it. The Chinese contributors include some of the most independent-minded scholars and practitioners in China. Their assessments of the challenges facing China in the areas of discrimination and inequality not only attest to their personal courage and intellectual freedom but also add an important perspective on this emerging superpower.

Author : Dr Leah Briones
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781409499008

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Empowering Migrant Women by Dr Leah Briones Pdf

Based on insights from Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong, this volume breaks through the polarized thinking and migration-centric policy action on the protection of migrant women domestic workers from abuse to link migrants' rights and victimization with livelihood, migration and development. The book contextualizes agency and rights in the workers' capability to secure a livelihood in the global political economy and is instrumental in making the problem of migrant women workers' empowerment both a migration and development agenda. The volume is essential reading for social scientists, bureaucrats and non-governmental political activists interested in the protection of the rights and livelihoods of migrants. It will also appeal to migration and feminist scholars who have yet to adopt the contribution of critical development studies in the analysis of low-skilled female labour migration.

Author : Eleonore Kofman,Annie Phizacklea,Parvati Raghuram,Rosemary Sales
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134705283

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Gender and International Migration in Europe by Eleonore Kofman,Annie Phizacklea,Parvati Raghuram,Rosemary Sales Pdf

Gender and International Migration in Europe is a unique work which introduces a gender dimension into theories of contemporary migrations. As the European Union seeks to extend equal opportunities, increasingly restrictionist immigration policies and the persistence of racism, deny autonomy and choice to migrant women. This work demonstrates how processes of globalisation and change in state policies on employment and welfare have maintained a demand for diverse forms of gendered immigration. The authors examine state and European Union policies of immigration control, family reunion, refugees and the management of immigrant and ethnic minority communities. Most importantly this work considers the opportunities created for political activity by migrant women and the extent to which they are able to influence and participate in mainstream policy-making. This volume will be essential reading for anyone involved in or interested in modern European immigration policy.

Author : Reginald Thomas Appleyard,International Organization for Migration
Publisher : International Org. for Migration
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015056297271

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The Human Rights of Migrants by Reginald Thomas Appleyard,International Organization for Migration Pdf

Includes statistics.

Author : Linda McDowell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118349243

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Working Lives by Linda McDowell Pdf

Full of unique and compelling insights into the working lives of migrant women in the UK, this book draws on more than two decades of in-depth research to explore the changing nature of women’s employment in post-war Britain. A first-rate example of theoretically located empirical analysis of labour market change in contemporary Britain Includes compelling case studies that combine historical documentation of social change with fascinating first-hand accounts of women’s working lives over decades Integrates information gleaned from more than two decades of in-depth research Revealing comparative analysis of the similarities and differences in the lives of immigrant working women in post-war Britain Features real-life accounts of women’s under-reported experiences of migration

Author : Nicole Constable
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520282025

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Born Out of Place by Nicole Constable Pdf

Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and local residents. In Born Out of Place, Nicole Constable looks at the experiences of Indonesian and Filipina women in this Asian world city. Giving voice to the stories of these migrant mothers, their South Asian, African, Chinese, and Western expatriate partners, and their Hong Kong–born babies, Constable raises a serious question: Do we regard migrants as people, or just as temporary workers? This accessible ethnography provides insight into global problems of mobility, family, and citizenship and points to the consequences, creative responses, melodramas, and tragedies of labor and migration policies.