Migration and Domestic Work
Exporting subservience: Sri Lankan women's migration for domestic work in Jordan
... The London School of Economics and Political Science Exporting Subservience Sri Lankan Women's Migrationfor Domestic Work in Jordan Elizabeth Frantz A thesis submitted to the Department of Anthropolog[.] ...
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Gendered work and migration regimes
... the domestic worker in the ‘highly gendered discursive frame of familialism’ (2004: 50) rather than recognising her as simply an ...Romanian domestic care worker in Israel to claim overtime payments because ...
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The Migration of Women Domestic Workers from Sri Lanka: Protecting the Rights of Children Left Behind
... labor migration are critical to many developing countries, yet these economic benefits can come at a high ...perform domestic work ...large-scale migration of women from the Global South on ...
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The political economy of migration enforcement: domestic versus border control
... controls migration flows, it might find it optimal to announce a target pleasing a majority of the electorate, but then strate- gically relax its enforcement, by either under–investing or using resources ...such ...
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Producing migrant domestic work : exploring the everyday political economy of Malaysia’s ‘maid shortage’
... of domestic workers by middle class Malaysian households has been thrown into flux by the imposition of bans on the sending of workers by states such as Indonesia and Cambodia, as well as the decline in numbers of ...
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HomeEconomics The Invisible and Unregulated World of Domestic Work
... internal migration pulled African American domestic workers from the South to urban centers in the Northeast and ...of domestic workers has shifted as employment opportunities broadened for black ...
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Internal Migration, Networks and Gender Roles among Domestic Workers in Vietnam
... for domestic work, while men are charged with work that is more labour- intensive and ...trivial work is problematic, because many tasks typically reserved for women are as hard as or even ...
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Governing domestic worker migration in Southeast Asia : public private partnerships, regulatory grey zones and the household
... labour migration – a reflection of the way in which skilled migration came to be understood in relation to the issue of free movement of services related to high paid professional service sector ...
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Regularising Labour Migration of Zimbabwean Domestic Workers in South Africa
... restrictive migration regime, South Africa must work towards treating all workers (including low-skilled, part-time, migrant, undocumented) equally under labour law, with a view to enhancing conditions and ...
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The work life experiences of an invisible workforce: the case of live in women migrant domestic workers in Malaysia
... of domestic workers, with an average of ...their work for a fixed monthly wage and the notion of overtime work does not ...to work as MDWs. This reinforces the social construction of ...
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My Way? The Circumstances and Intermediaries that Influence the Migration Decision-Making of Female Zimbabwean Domestic Workers in Johannesburg
... in domestic work in ...the migration space, including trade unions, non-governmental organisations, a faith based organisation, a municipal agency, placement agencies, international organisations and ...
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Domestic abuse and suicide : exploring the links with refuge’s client base and work force
... This pressure to ‘fill the gaps’ in services, whether real or perceived, is a cause for concern as it potentially exacerbates any adverse impact of working with traumatised clients already felt by workers. In recognition ...
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Externalization at work: responses to migration policies from the Global South
... “ migration management ” in third ...and migration management are ...of migration, are often linked to aspects of controlling migration alike, but implemented by local non-governmental ...
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Migration magnet: the role of work experience in rural–urban wage differentials
... The attraction of large firms with an international background is however insufficient in itself to increase formal employment. As Levy (2008) explains, there are several incentives not to register and simply continue to ...
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Moving out of poverty making migration work better for poor people
... There are increasing concerns about the loss of skilled and professional workers from developing countries as evidence suggests that ‘brain drain’ is now far greater than a few decades ago. For example, the number of ...
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Roma mobility, beyond migration : religious humanitarianism and transnational Roma missionary work as de constructions of migration
... missionary work in Romania was to reach out to and engage with Roma in their home countries, and though the movement may seem like a one-way street (from missionaries to missionized), in reality, collaboration and ...
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Gender, justice and domestic work: life course transitions and perceptions of fairness
... We also find significant within-individual effects for share of outdoor tasks in Model 6 (b = -0.02, p = 0.003) and the gender interaction for outdoor tasks (b = 0.02, p = 0.038). Gender attitudes (b = -0.51, p = 0.041), ...
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Unpacking domestic preferences in the policy-‘receiving’ state: the EU’s migration cooperation with Senegal and Ghana
... conflicting migration narratives, a point of serious contention with domestic rules is the identification procedures of assumed Senegalese or Ghanaian ...
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Domestic labour : the experience of work in India's other call centre industry
... Indian domestic workforce and provide evidence both of the type of work undertaken and of employees’ career ...the domestic workforce is female (52 percent), which compares to the 60/40 per cent ...
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Time allocation and domestic work among Maasai women: An evolutionary approach.
... and supportive environment in which to work. I am particularly grateful to Ruth Mace for her supervision which has been thoughtful and structured throughout and which kept this project on course when it was in ...
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