Migrant Domestic Workers
Learning from returnee Ethiopian migrant domestic workers: a qualitative assessment to reduce the risk of human trafficking
... This study was conducted among a relatively small group of self-selected respondents who were willing to discuss their experiences as migrant domestic workers in the Gulf States. Respondents were ...
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Female Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers In Hong Kong And Media Activism
... of migrant domestic workers began at Hong Kong’s handover from Britain to China in ...among migrant domestic workers, as Quizon explains: “Some had to find new employers … others ...
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Migrant domestic workers as 'agents' of development in Asia: collective organising at the intersection of temporality and transnationality
... shapes migrant agency and migrants’ development aspirations in essentially different ...temporality, migrant agency and the migration-development nexus debate in relation to a specific group of migrants, ...
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Perceived stressors and coping mechanisms of female migrant domestic workers in Singapore
... Perceived stressors and coping mechanisms of female migrant domestic workers in Singapore R E S E A R C H A R TI C L E P e r c ei v e d st r e s s o r s a n d c o pi n g m e c h a ni s m s of f e m al[.] ...
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Information Dissemination Needs of Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers in Malaysia
... returned migrant domestic workers are now working together with NGOs to share their experiences with prospective migrant workers or to organize a supporting ...returned domestic ...
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Improving the Life of Former Female Migrant Domestic Workers
... returned migrant domestic workers to overcome any issues after returning back ...transnational domestic work are expected to provide the women with knowledge, skills and capital (funds) to ...
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The work life experiences of an invisible workforce: the case of live in women migrant domestic workers in Malaysia
... million migrant workers globally, ...as migrant domestic workers (MDWs) (ILO, ...non-national domestic workers (Gallotti, ...and domestic services facilitate their ...
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The Situation of Women Migrant Domestic Workers in Bahrain
... Women migrant domestic workers face long (or undefined) working hours, low salaries and late payment of salaries and poor or repressive living ...female domestic workers was 108 per ...
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The Art of Flat Labor Organizing : Participatory Art and Migrant Domestic Workers’ Self-Organizing in London
... In ethnographic research, a reflexive consideration of our own social role in the research process is essential. The fact that the researcher was an Asian female migrant assisted in building relationships with ...
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Stress, health and quality of life of female migrant domestic workers in Singapore: a cross sectional study
... of MDWs’ presence in Singapore. However, it is becoming necessary to look at their general quality of life following the legalisation of a weekly day off for MDWs and the subsequent lobbying to place them under the ...
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Stress, health and quality of life of female migrant domestic workers in Singapore: a cross-sectional study
... Low-skilled migrant workers face difficulties in acces- sing health services in many countries, let alone mental health or social services, due to lack of entitlement/ac- cess, language barriers, strict ...
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Hope for Reform Springs Eternal: How the Sponsorship System, Domestic Laws and Traditional Customs Fail to Protect Migrant Domestic Workers in GCC Countries
... Estimates based on available data show that domestic work is one of the lowest paid occupations in any labor market." 4 In Qatar, domestic workers are paid le[r] ...
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How To Organize Domestic Workers
... for Domestic Workers” ILO Convention, however, is the first ILO process to focus attention on this growing international ...of domestic work for international labor law, to establish core minimum ...
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Migrant workers in Rochdale and Oldham : Executive summary
... The data suggests that people were attracted to Rochdale and Oldham by job opportunities, as well as the already established communities of migrant workers, particularly in relation to Polish ...
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Study on the Current Employment Situation of Migrant Workers
... of Migrant Workers is carried out, the migrant workers’ situation has been improved, es- pecially that their income has been increased greatly, the problem of wages in arrears has been abated, ...
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A Development Model Toward Social-Protection Policies for the Indonesian Women Migrant Contract Workers as Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
... women migrant worker and the Hong Kong ...women migrant workers and her ...of workers and ...all workers recruited by this agencies in the office, where various activities maybe ...
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Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on migrant workers
... Official Journal of the European Communities Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on migrant workers 84/C 343/07.. On 26 and 27 January 1983 the Economic and Social Committee , a[r] ...
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Social Mobility of Migrant Peasant Workers in China
... of migrant peasant workers to return home provides an indication that urbanization in China may not be dependent upon only one path—investing in the large metropolitan cit- ies—but may also need to ...
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Modeling on the Chikungunya Transmission with Mobility of Migrant Workers
... In this section we formulate a model for the transmission of chikungunya fever. First of all, we assumed that the human population is constant; birth rate equal to death rate. There are two groups of human population ...
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Migrant Workers and Physical Health: an Umbrella Review
... Abstract: Migrants are mainly employed in "3D Jobs" dirty, dangerous, difficult, characterized by monotony, intense rhythms, in sectors at higher risk as construction, heavy industry, agriculture. Aim of this ...
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