Migration and domestic work : the collective organisation of women and their voices from the city

• Main Authors: Yilmaz, Gaye, (Author), Ledwith, Sue, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
• Subjects: Urban women > Social conditions.; Women household employees.; Women immigrants.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319516493; 9783319516486
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

With female migrants dominating low paid and ever-expanding domestic work worldwide, this book brings together the voices of 120 migrating women from 28 different nations and 10 different religious affiliations. Together they tell how patriarchal and religious gender codes in the family and at work...