Gender, Migration and Domestic Service

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ISBN: 9780415190671 | 0415190673
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/2/1999

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This book examines a wide range of migration patterns which have arisen, both on a national and international scale, exposing the tensions and difficulties which arive from these movements.

List of tables

viii

List of figures

List of contributors

Preface

xiii

Maids on the Move

(20)

Janet Henshall Momsen

PART I North America

(60)

Is this Canada?: domestic workers' experiences in Vancouver, BC

(20)

Geraldine Pratt in Collaboration With The Philippine Women Centre

Jamaican domestics, Filipina housekeepers and English nannies: representations of Toronto's foreign domestic workers

(19)

Bernadette Stiell

Kim England

Making maids: United States immigration policy and immigrant domestic workers

(19)

Doreen Mattingly

PART II South America

(34)

Race and domestic service: migration and identity in Ecuador

(15)

Sarah A. Radcliffe

Transcending gendered boundaries: migration for domestic labour in Chile

(17)

Katina Pappas-Deluca

PART III Europe

115

(64)

Overseas domestic workers in the European Union: invisible women

117

(17)

Bridget Anderson

The role of ethnicity in shaping the domestic employment sector in Britain

134

(14)

Rosie Cox

Cinderella need not apply: a study of paid domestic work in Paris

148

(16)

Rekha Narula

Domestic work abroad: a necessity and an opportunity for rural women from the Goriska borderland region of Slovenia

164

(15)

Ana Barbic

Inga Miklavcic-Brezigar

PART IV Africa

179

(34)

`Home is where the children are': a qualitative study of migratory domestic workers in Mmotla village, South Africa

183

(12)

Tessa Le Roux

Working in the city: the case of migrant women in Swaziland's domestic service sector

195

(18)

Miranda Miles

PART V Asia

213

(92)

Interlinking trajectories: migration and domestic work in India

215

(14)

Parvati Raghuram

Maids in space: gendered domestic labour from Sri Lanka to the Middle East

229

(13)

Munira Ismail

`Learning the ways of the priyayi': domestic servants and the mediation of modernity in Jakarta, Indonesia

242

(21)

Rebecca Elmhirst

Foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong and their role in childcare provision

263

(14)

Vicky C.W. Tam

Singapore women and foreign domestic workers: negotiating domestic work and motherhood

277

(28)

Brenda S.A. Yeoh

Shirlena Huang

Conclusion: future trends and trajectories

301

(4)

Janet Henshall Momsen

Index

305

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