ABSTRACT
This book examines a wide range of migration patterns which have arisen, and exposes the tensions and difficulties including:
* legal and empowerment issues
* cultural and language diversities and barriers
* the impact of live-in employment.
The book features case studies taken from Europe, South and North America, the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa and uses original fieldwork using quantitative and qualitative methods.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |58 pages
North America
chapter |18 pages
Jamaican Domestics, Filipina Housekeepers and English Nannies
Representations of Toronto's foreign domestic workers
1
part |32 pages
South America
part |63 pages
Europe
chapter |13 pages
Domestic Work Abroad
A necessity and an opportunity for rural women from the Goriška borderland region of Slovenia
part |32 pages
Africa
chapter |11 pages
‘Home is where the Children are'
A qualitative study of migratory domestic workers in Mmotla village, South Africa
chapter |16 pages
Working in the City
The case of migrant women in Swaziland's domestic service sector
part |89 pages
Asia
chapter |21 pages
‘Learning the ways of the Priyayi'
Domestic servants and the mediation of modernity in Jakarta, Indonesia
chapter |23 pages
Singapore Women and Foreign Domestic Workers
Negotiating domestic work and motherhood
