Migration and Domestic Work
Yilmaz, Gaye; Ledwith, Sue
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Description for Migration and Domestic Work
Hardback. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KJG; KJMV2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
With female migrants dominating low paid and ever-expanding domestic work worldwide, this book brings together the voices of 120 migrating women of 28 national identities and 10 different religious affiliations. Together they tell how patriarchal and religious gender codes in the family and at work shape their new lives in London, Berlin and Istanbul. Through their own accounts, the study explores the intersecting multiple and gendered identities women carry from their home countries and how these are reshaped, challenged, changed, or not, as they encounter different structures, traditions and cultural codes in their new countries. With women’s propensity for collective ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319516486
SKU
V9783319516486
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Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Yilmaz, Gaye; Ledwith, Sue
Gaye Yilmaz is a scholar in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. While her academic work focuses on political economy she has also actively taken part in the struggles of vulnerable groups such as Kurds, workers, women and LGBTI. She worked for Turkish labour unions between 1996 and 2008. She was also one of 1128 academics ... Read more
Reviews for Migration and Domestic Work
“The voices and lives of migrant women domestic workers are the central pillar of this book. … The book will therefore be of great interest to both scholars of labour studies, and labour and women’s movement activists who want to know more about how the intersecting aspects of migrant women workers’ identities shape their lives.” (Fenella Porter, British Journal of ... Read more