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| Genre/Form: | Case studies |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Janet Henshall Momsen |
| ISBN: | 0415190673 9780415190671 9780203452509 020345250X |
| OCLC Number: | 40631712 |
| Description: | xiv, 314 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Maids on the move / Janet Henshall Momsen -- PART I. North America -- Is this Canada?: domestic workers' experience in Vancouver, BC / Geraldine Pratt in collaboration with the Philippine Women Centre -- Jamaican domestics, Filipina housekeepers and English nannies: representations of Toronto's foreign domestic workers / Bernadette Steill, Kim England -- Making maids: United States immigration policy and immigrant domestic workers / Doreen Mattingly -- PART II. South America -- Race and domestic service: migration and identity in Ecuador / Sarah A. Radcliffe -- Transcending gendered boundaries: migration for domestic labour in Chile / Katina Pappas-Deluca -- PART III. Europe -- Overseas domestic workers in the European Union: invisible women / Bridget Anderson -- Role of ethnicity in shaping the domestic employment sector in Britain / Rosie Cox -- Cinderella need not apply: a study of paid domestic work in Paris / Rekha Narula -- Domestic work abroad: a necessity and an opportunity for rural women from the Goriška borderland region of Slovenia / Ana Barbič, Inga Miklavčič-Brezigar -- PART IV. Africa -- 'Home is where the children are': a qualitiative study of migratory domestic workers in Mmotla village, South Africa / Tessa Le Roux -- Working in the city: the case of migrant women in Swaziland's domestic service sector / Miranda Miles -- PART V. Asia -- Interlinking trajectories: migration and domestic work in India / Parvati Raghuram -- Maids in space: gendered domestic labour from Sri Lanka to the Middle East / Munira Ismail -- 'Learning the ways of the priyayi': domestic servants and the mediation of modernity in Jakarta, Indonesia / Rebecca Elmhirst -- Foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong and their role in childcare provision / Vicky C.W. Tam -- Singapore women and foreign domestic workers: negotiating domestic work and motherhood / Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Shirlena Huang -- Conclusion: future trends and trajectories / Janet Henshall Momsen |
| Series Title: | International studies of women and place. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Janet Henshall Momsen. |
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"Three sets of processes that are already intimately entwined-gender, migration, and domestic work-are analyzed and contextualized beautifully in this book...I am very impressed with the enormous amount of work that must have taken place to produce a collection with this breadth of authors, areas, and approaches, and I commend Momsen for her efforts and their top-notch results...overall, a wonderful book."<br>-Annals of the Association of American Geographers <br>"Three sets of processes that are already intimately intertwined--gender, migration, and domestic work--are analyzed and contextualized beautifully in this book... I am very impressed with the enormous amount of work that must have taken place to produce a collection with this breadth of authors, areas, and approaches, and I commend Momsen for her efforts and their top-notch results... overall, a wonderful book."<br>-Annals of the Assocation of American Geographers <br> Read more...
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