Essays about: "female migrant domestic workers"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words female migrant domestic workers.

1. 1. Female household worker's own perceptions of remittances as a sustainable livelihood : A case study of migrant domestic workers in Saudi Arabia

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Emma-stina Carlert Blomqvist; [2023]
   Keywords : Sustainable livelihoods; Remittances; Female Household workers; Perceptions; Saudi Arabia;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the perceptions of female migrant household workers situated in Saudi Arabia and how remittances can be a sustainable livelihood for them and their households. There has been limited research surrounding female household workers' own perceptions of sustainable livelihoods and particularly of those situated in Saudi Arabia. READ MORE

3. 2. Intersecting Oppressions of Migrant Domestic Workers : (In)Securities of Female Migration to Lebanon

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

   Author : Janine Gunzelmann; [2020]
   Keywords : Gendered Migration; Migrant Domestic Workers; Intersectionality; Lebanon;

   Abstract : This Master’s thesis explores the intersection of powers that create (in)secure female migration to Lebanon. It contributes to a growing literature corpus about the lives of women, originating from South/ South-East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, who migrate to Lebanon to work in the domestic work sector. READ MORE

4. 3. Resistance under repression. The political mobilisation of female migrant domestic workers in Lebanon

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Eva-Maria Hochreuther; [2019]
   Keywords : Migrant domestic workers; Domestic work; Lebanon; Political mobilisation; Labour protest; Free spaces;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to understand how the political mobilisation of migrant domestic workers (MDWs) employed in Lebanon started and continued. It also tries to comprehend how some of them could found a politically active collective of MDWs, the Alliance of Domestic Workers in Lebanon (Alliance), by analysing what factors enabled and restrained the open political activism of MDWs from their first steps as activists until now. READ MORE

5. 4. Anti-Human Trafficking Efforts in Hong Kong

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen; Lunds universitet/Pedagogik; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies

   Author : Julia Guse; [2019]
   Keywords : Hong Kong; anti- human trafficking; female migrant domestic workers; civil society actors; agency; empowerment; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : This study investigates how civil society actors contribute to anti-human trafficking efforts in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), China, hereinafter referred to as Hong Kong. Thereby, the direct and indirect roles of NGOs and migrant domestic workers community leaders in such efforts are identified. READ MORE

6. 5. The Filipino-American Care Chain : Gender, Transnational Migration and the Globalisation of Care

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Socialantropologiska institutionen

   Author : Thydén Nanna; [2019]
   Keywords : Care chains; domestic workers; care drain; remittances; transnational families; Philippines; United States;

   Abstract : By caring for children, the elders and the ill, care workers are fundamental for the global economy and for peoples’ well-being. As confirmed in this thesis, the majority of domestic workers are migrant women. READ MORE