Essays about: "migrant domestic workers"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 25 essays containing the words migrant domestic workers.

  1. 11. 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

  3. 12. The paradox of women migrant workers: agency and vulnerabilities. : Understanding the perspective of women migrant workers in Amman, Jordan 

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Maria Mercedes Lopez; [2018]
    Keywords : women migrant workers; domestic workers; feminization of migration; gender; agency; vulnerability; Jordan;

    Abstract : Migration has taken place throughout human history. However, push and pull factors for migration have changed, and some have not been identified during long periods of time. READ MORE

  4. 13. The Right to Social Security in Cambodia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakulteten; Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Rathana Ken; [2018]
    Keywords : Right to Social Security in Cambodia; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : Given that the social security has not been extended to vast majority of Cambodia’s population, this thesis is initiated to analyze whether the implementation of the Right to Social Security is effective and in line with the international social security instruments. In doing so, the analysis is conducted by examining Cambodia’s national legal framework and polices concerning the implementation of the Right to Social Security. READ MORE

  5. 14. Establishing a Culture of Migration : The Spatial, Economic, and Social Planning of Philippine-Korean Labour Migration

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologi

    Author : Lars Jesper Alkarp; [2018]
    Keywords : labour migration; the Philippines; Korea; globalisation; transnationalism; transnational families; ethnic enclaves; remittances;

    Abstract : Since the second half of the 20th century the Philippines have supplied the world with migrant workers. Today, almost one tenth of the population is residing abroad. READ MORE

  6. 15. Filipina Domestic Workers in São Paulo - An Explorative Case Study on the Social Reproduction of Class, Gender and Race

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Hannah Clara Reustle; [2017]
    Keywords : social reproduction feminism; field study; Brazil; São Paulo; Filipina migrant domestic workers; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The study is a first attempt to academically investigate the case of Filipina domestic workers in São Paulo. In brief, it aims to outline these migrants’ life and working conditions, their insertion and function within class relations and in regard to a gendered and racialized work regime. READ MORE