ABSTRACT
This introduction outlines how our collective contribution engages with existing literature on migrant gendered labour, but also how it crosses several boundaries across disciplines, sectors, spaces and time to offer the reader innovative lenses on these global themes. While building on the key contributions of scholars on domestic and care work, our volume argues for a cross-sectorial analysis to grasp the complexities of individual trajectories within broader patterns of gendered labour migration. The notion of agency is a thread that runs across all chapters, and which lies at the heart of this volume and its vision. It is studied here through original ethnographies adopting interdisciplinary and comparative approaches. Finally, this introduction presents the structure of the book, which divided into three main parts on ‘Migrant workers in feminised sectors: Meanings of work’, ‘Migrant agency, mobilisations and resilience in precarious contexts’ and ‘Transforming gender relations’.
