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Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East: The Home and the World
Bina Fernandez
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Description for Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East: The Home and the World
Hardcover. For over half a century, the Middle East has been major migration corridor for domestic workers from Asia and Africa. This book Illuminates the multidimensionality of these workers' lives as they engage in finding a balance between acting and being acted upon, struggle and accommodation, and movement and stasis. Editor(s): Fernandez, Bina; De Regt, Marina; Currie, Gregory. Num Pages: 207 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFFN; JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
For over half a century, the Middle East has been major migration corridor for domestic workers from Asia and Africa. This book Illuminates the multidimensionality of these workers' lives as they engage in finding a balance between acting and being acted upon, struggle and accommodation, and movement and stasis.
For over half a century, the Middle East has been major migration corridor for domestic workers from Asia and Africa. This book Illuminates the multidimensionality of these workers' lives as they engage in finding a balance between acting and being acted upon, struggle and accommodation, and movement and stasis.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
199
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137482105
SKU
V9781137482105
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Bina Fernandez
Marina de Regt, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Nada Elyas, Taibah University, Madinah, Saudia Arabia, and University of Hull, UK Bina Fernandez, University of Melbourne, Australia Naomi Hosod, Kagawa University, Japan Mark Johnson, University of Hull, UK Claudia Liebelt, University of Bayreuth, Germany Pardis Mahdavi, Pomona College, USA Amrita Pande, University of Cape Town, South Africa Akiko Watanabe, Bunkyo ... Read more
Reviews for Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East: The Home and the World
"This edited volume, based on ethnographic fieldwork, provides important new insights in the everyday lives of migrant domestic workers in the Middle East. With the home turned into a workplace and privacy to be found in the public, it unsettles conventional notions about the public and the private. Employing agency and mobility as key terms, the case studies go beyond ... Read more