Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East

The Home and the World
2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-50301-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 199 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 245 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fernandez, B.

Regt, M de

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Making a Home in the World: Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East; Bina Fernandez and Marina de Regt 2. Forging Intimate and Work Ties: Migrant Domestic Workers Resist in Lebanon; Amrita Pande 3. Degrees of (un)freedom: The Exercise of Agency by Ethiopian Migrant Domestic Workers in Kuwait and Lebanon; Bina Fernandez 4. Immobilized Migrancy: Inflexible Citizenship and Flexible Practices Among Migrants in the Gulf; Pardis Mahdavi 5. The 'Mama Mary' of the White City's Underside: Reflections on a Filipina Domestic Workers' Block Rosary in Tel Aviv, Israel; Claudia Liebelt 6. Creating a 'New Home' Away from Home: Religious Conversions of Filipina Domestic Workers in Dubai and Doha; Naomi Hosoda and Akiko Watanabe 7. Caring for the Future in the Kingdom: Saudi and Filipino Women Making Home in a World of Movement; Nada Elyas and Mark Johnson 8. 'Shall We Leave or Not?' Ethiopian Women's Notions of Home and Belonging and the Crisis in Yemen; Marina de Regt

Über Autor(innen)

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 University, Japan