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Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East

The Home and the World

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Gebonden, blz. | Engels
Palgrave Macmillan US | e druk, 2014
ISBN13: 9781137482105
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Palgrave Macmillan US e druk, 2014 9781137482105
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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.

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ISBN13:9781137482105
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan US

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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
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