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This volume makes the case for the fair treatment of female migrant workers from the global South who are employed in wealthy liberal democracies as care workers, domestic workers, home health workers, and farm workers. An international panel of contributors provide analyses of the ethical, political, and legal harms suffered by female migrant workers, based on empirical data and case studies, along with original and sophisticated analyses of the complex of systemic, structural factors responsible for the harms experienced by women migrant workers. The book also proposes realistic and original solutions to the problem of the unjust treatment of women migrant workers, such as social security systems that are transnational and tailored to meet the particular needs of different groups of international migrant workers.

This fascinating study unveils the workings of the Indonesian migration regime, one that sends hundreds of thousands of women abroad as domestic workers each year. Drawing on extended ethnographic research since 2007, the book literally follows migrant women from a matrilocal village in upland Central Java, women who actively place themselves in a position to enter the migration pipeline, knowing that their lives abroad will be hard and even dangerous, and that staying in the village is an option. From recruitment by local brokers to the 'training' received in secluded camps in Jakarta, employment in gated middle-class homes within Indonesia and in Malaysia and back home again, Olivia Killias tracks the moral, social, economic and legal processes by which women are turned into 'maids'. The author's analysis uncovers the colonial genealogies of contemporary domestic worker migration and demonstrates that, ironically, the legalization of the migration industry does not automatically improve the situation of the women in its care. Rather, Killias unmasks the gendered moralizing discourses on 'illegal' migration and 'trafficking' as legitimizing indentured labour and constraining migrant mobility. By exploring the workings of the Indonesian state's overseas legal labour migration regime for migrants, she brings the reader directly into the nerve-racking lives of migrant village women, and reveals the richness and ambiguity of their experiences, going beyond stereotypical representations of them as 'victims of trafficking'.

Much of the research on immigrant women and labor forces has focused on the participation of immigrant women on formal labor markets. In this study, contributors focus on informal economies such as health care, domestic work, street vending, and the garment industry, where displaced and undocumented women are more likely to work. Because such informal labor markets are unregulated, many of these workers face abusive working conditions that are not reported for fear of job loss or deportation. In examining the complex dynamics of how immigrant women navigate political and economic uncertainties, this collection highlights the important role of citizenship status in defining immigrant women's opportunities, wages, and labor conditions.

National audience ; Dans cet article, la question du travail des immigrantes à Marseille est étudiée à travers l'analyse de la gestion de la main-d'œuvre étrangère dans un contexte où s'élabore en France une politique d'immigration et où les organismes publics prennent en charge la gestion du marché du travail. L'analyse montre une politique ambivalente à l'égard de la main-d'œuvre étrangère féminine et la place qu'occupent les travailleuses immigrantes sur le marché du travail marseillais dans les décennies 1920 et 1930.

National audience ; Dans cet article, la question du travail des immigrantes à Marseille est étudiée à travers l'analyse de la gestion de la main-d'œuvre étrangère dans un contexte où s'élabore en France une politique d'immigration et où les organismes publics prennent en charge la gestion du marché du travail. L'analyse montre une politique ambivalente à l'égard de la main-d'œuvre étrangère féminine et la place qu'occupent les travailleuses immigrantes sur le marché du travail marseillais dans les décennies 1920 et 1930.

National audience ; Dans cet article, la question du travail des immigrantes à Marseille est étudiée à travers l'analyse de la gestion de la main-d'œuvre étrangère dans un contexte où s'élabore en France une politique d'immigration et où les organismes publics prennent en charge la gestion du marché du travail. L'analyse montre une politique ambivalente à l'égard de la main-d'œuvre étrangère féminine et la place qu'occupent les travailleuses immigrantes sur le marché du travail marseillais dans les décennies 1920 et 1930.

National audience ; Dans cet article, la question du travail des immigrantes à Marseille est étudiée à travers l'analyse de la gestion de la main-d'œuvre étrangère dans un contexte où s'élabore en France une politique d'immigration et où les organismes publics prennent en charge la gestion du marché du travail. L'analyse montre une politique ambivalente à l'égard de la main-d'œuvre étrangère féminine et la place qu'occupent les travailleuses immigrantes sur le marché du travail marseillais dans les décennies 1920 et 1930.

National audience ; Dans cet article, la question du travail des immigrantes à Marseille est étudiée à travers l'analyse de la gestion de la main-d'œuvre étrangère dans un contexte où s'élabore en France une politique d'immigration et où les organismes publics prennent en charge la gestion du marché du travail. L'analyse montre une politique ambivalente à l'égard de la main-d'œuvre étrangère féminine et la place qu'occupent les travailleuses immigrantes sur le marché du travail marseillais dans les décennies 1920 et 1930.

This book explores the dynamic interplay between cross-national and cross-cultural patterns of female migration, integration and social change, by focusing on the specific case of Belgium. It provides insight into the dynamic interplay between gender and migration, and especially contributes to the knowledge of how migration changes gender relations in Belgium, as well as in the regions of origin. To this end, an analytical model for conducting gender-sensitive migration research is developed out of an initial theory-driven conceptual model. Employing a transversal approach, the researchers re.

"In Not One of the Family, workers-turned-activists and experts on foreign domestic workers document how the Canadian system has institutionalized unequal treatment of citizen and non-citizen workers. Since the 1940s rights of citizenship for immigrant domestic workers in Canada have declined, while the number of women recruited from Third World countries to work in Canadian homes has dramatically increased. The analysis is Not One of the Family is both theoretical and practical, framing ideologies of privacy, maternalism, familialism, and rights, as well as examining government policy, labour organizing, and strategies to resist exploitation." "A key resource for all centres for women and immigrant workers, Not One of the Family is also essential reading for civil rights and immigration lawyers, labour groups, and government policy makers."--Jacket

Domestic and care work in private households is now the largest employment sector for migrant women. This book sheds light on these households through its focus on the interpersonal relationships between Latin American "undocumented migrant" domestic workers and employers in Austria, Germany, Spain and the UK. The personal experiences of these women form the basis for Gutiérrez-Rodríguezʹs decolonial analysis of the feminization of labor in private households and cultural analysis of domestic work as affective labor. This book will be a necessary voice in the debates on citizenship, cosmopolitanism, and migrant workersʹ rights. -- Publisher description from http://www.routledge.com (Sep. 30, 2011).

"This book resets the agenda on sex trafficking. Methodologically daring, it brings poststructuralist approaches on migration, labour and political subjectivities to existing studies on European integration, labour markets and gender-based violence. By linking a number of scholarly debates and discursive areas that are not commonly brought together in studies on sex trafficking, this study sets out to expose the link between sex trafficking and the constitution of citizenship, and advance a scholarly re-conceptualization of 'sex trafficking' grounded in the particularity of the European situation. Based on original ethnographic interviews with migrant women in the sex sector, the book shifts the theorization of sex trafficking away from the criminalization paradigm and towards a new theory of agency and citizenship"--Provided by publisher.

Drawing on original empirical research from Singapore and Hong Kong, Gendered Labour, Everyday Security and Migration interrogates women migrant domestic workers' experiences of work and workplace exploitation. It examines the ways in which these women negotiate everyday security and safe work against the backdrop of affective employment relations and institutional structures of labour and migration law. It challenges the current emphasis on the language of exploitation and legal approaches to identifying, understanding and rectifying poor employment conditions for women migrant domestic workers. This book addresses the limited research literature that examines the extent to which regulatory or criminal justice responses are relevant to, and utilised by, women migrant domestic workers in their everyday negotiation of safe work and offers a unique contribution to the field. An accessible and compelling read, it will be of interest to researchers from across the fields of criminology, sociology, labour migration studies and women's studies.

"Based on in-depth ethnographic work, this book presents a study of Filipinas trafficked to South Korea, focusing on women who entered South Korea as migrant entertainers and subsequently became deployed in exploitative work environments around US military bases there. It contributes to the extension of our knowledge about human trafficking in the Asian region through an exploration of the experiences of more than 100 women who took part in the study"--