ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|20 pages

Women on the Move

part I|52 pages

Circumstances of Injustice

chapter 2|30 pages

“Her Life within the Home”

The Construction of Gender and Female International Migrant Workers in the Republic of Ireland

chapter 3|20 pages

Trapped in a Web of Immigration and Employment Laws

Female Undocumented Home Health Workers in the US1

part II|56 pages

Uncaring Development Paradigms

chapter 4|26 pages

On a Collision Course

Millennium Development Goals and Mothers' Migration

chapter 5|28 pages

Global Care Chains

Reshaping the Hidden Foundations of an Unsustainable Development Model1

part III|48 pages

Unjust Social Security Systems

part IV|20 pages

Care for Care Workers

chapter 8|18 pages

“A Place to Call Home”

The Catholic Church and Female Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore

part V|54 pages

The Way Forward

chapter 9|25 pages

Transnationalization and the Capitalization of Labor

Female Foreign Domestic Workers

chapter 10|27 pages

Hopes and Expectations Dashed

Migrant Women, the Informal Welfare State and Women's Labor Force Participation in Greece1