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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|52 pages
Circumstances of Injustice
chapter 2|30 pages
“Her Life within the Home”
chapter 3|20 pages
Trapped in a Web of Immigration and Employment Laws
part II|56 pages
Uncaring Development Paradigms
chapter 5|28 pages
Global Care Chains
part III|48 pages
Unjust Social Security Systems
chapter 7|23 pages
Gendered Policies, Single Mothers and Transnational Motherhood
part IV|20 pages
Care for Care Workers
chapter 8|18 pages
“A Place to Call Home”
part V|54 pages
The Way Forward