Women Migrant Workers

Ethical, Political and Legal Problems
Herausgeber: Meghani, Zahra

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on the work of sociologists, geographers, economists, and political scientists, this volume examines the ethical and political implications of the mass migration of female workers from the global south to the north, and explores the effects of gendered global labor flows on both areas.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780415534079
• ISBN-10: 0415534070
• Artikelnr.: 34744561

Autorenporträt

Zahra Meghani is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rhode Island.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Protecting the Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms of Migrant
Women Workers Maria Jose Alcalá. Acknowledgments 1. Women on the Move
Zahra Meghani Part One: Circumstances of Injustice 2. "Her Life Within the
Home": The Construction of Gender and Female International Migrant Workers
in the Republic of Ireland Graham Finlay and JoAnne M. Mancini 3. Trapped
in a Web of Immigration and Employment Laws: Female Undocumented Home
Health Workers in the US Zahra Meghani Part Two: Uncaring Development
Paradigms 4. On a Collision Course: Millennium Development Goals and
Mothers' Migration Delali Badasu and Sonya Michel 5. Global Care Chains:
Reshaping the Hidden Foundations of an Unsustainable Development Model
Amaia Pérez Orozco Part Three: Unjust Social Security Systems 6.
International Migrant Domestic Workers, National Welfare States and
Transnational Social Security Arrangements Sarah van Walsum 7. Gendered
Policies, Single Mothers and Transnational Motherhood: Mexican Female
Migrant Farmworkers in Canada Ofelia Becerril Part Four: Care for Care
Workers 8. "A Place to Call Home": The Catholic Church and Female Foreign
Domestic Workers in Singapore Theresa Devasahayam Part Five: The Way
Forward 9. Transnationalization and the Capitalization of Labor: Female
Foreign Domestic Workers Stuart Rosewarne 10. Hopes and Expectations
Dashed: Migrant Women, the Informal Welfare State and Women's Labor Force
Participation in Greece Antigone Lyberaki