<p><span>With a focus on migrant narratives, or the storytelling about migration, this volume considers the ways in which migration is and has been shaped by individual and collective experiences of agency, belonging and community.</span></p><p><span>Driven by an agenda of deep listening, each chapt
Migration and Domestic Work (Studies in Migration and Diaspora)
β Scribed by Helma Lutz
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- 2008
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- English
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- 225
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- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Domestic work has become highly relevant on a local and global scale. Until a decade ago, domestic workers were rare in European households; today they can be found working for middle-class families and single people, for double or single parents as well as for the elderly. Performing the three C's - cleaning, caring and cooking - domestic workers offer their woman power on a global market which Europe has become part of. This global market is now considered the largest labor market for women world wide and it has triggered the feminization of migration.This volume brings together contributions by European and US based researchers to look at the connection between migration and domestic work on an empirical and theoretical level. The contributors, including Jacqueline Andall and Bridget Anderson, elaborate on the phenomenon of 'domestic work' in late modern societies by discussing different methodological and theoretical approaches in an interdisciplinary setting. The volume also looks at the gendered aspects of domestic work; it asks why the re-introduction of domestic workers in European households have become so popular and will argue that this phenomenon is challenging gender theories. This is a timely book and is of interest to academics and students in migration, gender and European studies.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents......Page 6
List of Contributors......Page 8
Foreword......Page 11
Series Editorβs Preface......Page 12
1 Introduction: Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe......Page 14
PART ONE: DOMESTIC WORK β BUSINESS AS USUAL?......Page 24
2 The Intersection of Childcare Regimes and Migration Regimes: A Three-Country Study......Page 26
3 Migrations and the Restructuring of the Welfare State in Italy: Change and Continuity in the Domestic Work Sector......Page 42
4 When Home Becomes a Workplace: Domestic Work as an Ordinary Job in Germany?......Page 56
5 Perceptions of Work in Albanian Immigrantsβ Testimonies and the Structure of Domestic Work in Greece......Page 74
PART TWO: TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION SPACES: POLICIES, FAMILIES AND HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT......Page 88
6 The Globalisation of Domestic Service β An Historical Perspective......Page 90
7 Perpetually Foreign: Filipina Migrant Domestic Workers in Rome......Page 112
8 Domestic Work and Transnational Care Chains in Spain......Page 126
9 Contingencies Among Households: Gendered Division of Labour and Transnational Household Organization β The Case of Ukrainians in Austria......Page 140
PART THREE: STATES AND MARKETS: MIGRATION REGIMES AND STRATEGIES......Page 156
10 Risk and Risk Strategies in Migration: Ukrainian Domestic Workers in Poland......Page 158
11 Between Intimacy and Alienage: The Legal Construction of Domestic and Carework in the Welfare State......Page 174
12 Being Illegal in Europe: Strategies and Policies for Fairer Treatment of Migrant Domestic Workers......Page 190
13 Conclusion: Domestic Work, Migration and the New Gender Order in Contemporary Europe......Page 208
G......Page 222
M......Page 223
W......Page 224
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