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1 online resource |
| Note |
Title from summary screen, viewed on December 19, 2006. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Subject |
Women household employees -- Case studies.
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Women foreign workers -- Case studies.
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Women immigrants -- Case studies.
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Emigration and immigration law.
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Emigration and immigration law. (OCoLC)fst00908736
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Women foreign workers. (OCoLC)fst01734121
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Women household employees. (OCoLC)fst01734125
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Women immigrants. (OCoLC)fst01177764
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Vrouwenarbeid.
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Dienstboden.
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Immigranten.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies. (OCoLC)fst01423765
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| Added Author |
Momsen, Janet Henshall.
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| Added Title |
Gender, migration, and domestic service |
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