Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (222 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9089643273
,
9048514479
,
9789089643278
,
9789048514472
Serie:
IMISCOE Dissertations
Inhalt:
This book is about migration as a form of risk-taking. Based on Ukrainian women's experiences in the Polish domestic work sector, it presents a new approach to analyse movements of female migrants responding to the demand for household labour around the world. Risks involved in migration and in migrant domestic work are accounted for in detail alongside an analysis of the migration decision-making processes. This study shows how social ties and migrant institutions effectively reduce the otherwise radical asymmetry of power between an individual migrant, the state and an employer. A Risky Busi
Inhalt:
A 'Risky'Business?; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Ukrainian migrant women, migrant domestic work and risk; 2 Risk, migration and migrant domestic work: Selected theory and research review; 3 Theoretical approach and research methodology applied in this study; 4 Ukrainian migrant women's images of risk; 5 Legal risks of migrationand legal risk-balancing strategies; 6 Risks and risk strategies in migrant domestic work; 7 Familiar risk: Ukrainian women in the Polishdomestic work sector; Notes; References
Anmerkung:
English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9789089643278
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version ISBN 9789089643278
Sprache:
Englisch
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