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Hochreuther, Eva-Maria. "Resistance under repression. The political mobilisation of female migrant domestic workers in Lebanon." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22868.
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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. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with two founding members and seven international and Lebanese organisations, the MDWs´ political mobilisation is chronologically recaptured. Extending Lahusen´s definition of political mobilisation, the thesis critically reflects on Johnston´s concept for protest to evolve in repressive states. The analysis shows that the women activists are left in a lawless position and refer to the free spaces of Lebanese and international non-profit organisations, where their activism begins. These organisations help the women to build up their protest capital, enabling them to start their own group, the Alliance. Within their own group they organise themselves not only against the injustice they experience as MDWs but also emancipate themselves from their dependency on the NGOs. The findings approve that though international and Lebanese organisations have played a crucial part in successfully mobilising the women, the MDWs´ experience of lack of influence inside these free spaces, shapes the group´s actions, collective identity and course. Their political mobilisation can be seen as a long-term, organic process, in which knowledge, collective identity, collective action and experience are tightly interwoven and are the motor behind the members´ activism.
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Gunzelmann, Janine. "Intersecting Oppressions of Migrant Domestic Workers : (In)Securities of Female Migration to Lebanon." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-91402.
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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. Ongoing exploitations of migrant domestic workers (MDWs) under Lebanon’s migration regime, the kafala system, have been documented in detail. Yet, the question about which overlapping powers actually shape the migratory experience of MDWs calls for closer inspection – especially in light of previous unidirectional analyses that seem to obscure the intersectional experiences of migrant women. By uncovering intersecting systems of domination and subordination, this analysis aims to deconstruct oppressive powers and to answer the research question about which powers create (in)secure female migration to Lebanon. This objective is approached through ethnographic-qualitative methods of semi-structured interviewing and participant observation during a seven-week field research in Lebanon. Data contributed by research participants, i.e. MDWs themselves and individuals that have experience in supporting them, are analyzed through an intersectional lens that acknowledges the multifacetedness of MDWs as social beings comprised of overlapping and intersecting dynamic facets. This analysis argues for multiple levels and layers that create an enmeshed web of interacting categories, processes and systems that render female migration insecure. Detected underlying powers range from global forces over specific migration regulations to societal structures that are based on sexism, racism, cultural othering and class differences - amongst others. These forces are impossible to deconstruct in isolation because they function through each other. Their multilevel intersections lead to power imbalances between worker and employer, isolation and invisibility of the former on several levels as well as the commodification, dehumanization and mobility limitations of MDWs. Yet, female labor migrants counter these intersecting powers through creative and dynamic acts of resistance and self-empowerment and, thus, prove that the dismantling of overlapping oppressions calls for intersecting multilevel deconstructions.
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Ketema, Naami. "Female Ethiopian Migrant Domestic Workers: An Analysis of Migration, Return-Migration and Reintegration Experiences." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18495.
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This study explores the different effects of gendered migration focusing on migration, return migration and reintegration challenges and opportunities facing female Ethiopian migrant returnees from Middle East countries. It looks into the different stages of migration to understand some of the cultural, economic and social transformations women domestic workers experience as immigrants and laborers in the Gulf region and upon their return to Ethiopia. In doing so, the study examines the different ways women try to renegotiate and reintegrate with their families and communities.
In-depth interviews with eighteen women returnees reveal the uneven distribution of experiences and outcomes of gendered migration. However, there exists some consistency in the disruptive and disempowering effect of these experiences in the destination countries that usually extend after return. Post return experiences reveal that the renegotiations of women returnees on issues of reception, economic betterment, relationship rebuilding and exercising agency with families and communities are often stressful, isolating and disempowering.
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Leahy, Patricia. "Female migrant labour in Asia: a case study of Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1990. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31949800.
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Cantu, Roselyn. "The Glass Ceiling’s Missing Pieces: Female Migrant Domestic Workers Navigating Neoliberal Globalization in Latin America." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1820.
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This thesis explores globalization’s effects on female migrant domestic workers in Latin America by examining the socioeconomic and political status of Paraguayan and Peruvian domestic workers in Argentina. Through this research, I answer several key questions. First, how does globalization shape neoliberal markets that enforce the exploitative structures of domestic labor? Second, how is gender inequality present in governmental and social discrimination? Third, do the costs of transnational care labor outweigh the benefits? The former two questions are answered by the rising demand for care labor and resulting global care chains that fuel greater cross-border migration and statelessness of female migrants. Additionally, cultural and familial pressures magnify the sexual division of labor and maintain domestic labor’s low social status. Using a gender analysis, I address the last question by concluding that gender inequalities through governmental and social discrimination, plus emotional-familial burdens, outweigh domestic labor’s short-sighted financial prospects and autonomy provided by globalization.
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French, C. "Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372525.
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Salih, Ismail Idowu. "The plights of migrant domestic workers in the UK : a legal perspective." Thesis, Middlesex University, 2016. http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/18770/.
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As a group of migrant workers, overseas domestic workers (‘‘ODWs’’) have been extensively studied in the migration, geography, and sociology disciplines. Legal scholarly publications addressing the shortfalls in the rights of these workers are beginning to catch up. The International Labour Organization (‘‘ILO’’) supports the argument that ODWs are by far the most vulnerable group of migrant workers. In the United Kingdom, the problem faced by ODWs is complicated by the hostile immigration policy and exclusion clauses in the employment law. Despite the ODWs having been exposed to a series of abuses, exploitations, and occupational health and safety hazards like workers in other occupations, they are unduly excluded from the protection and benefits available to those other workers. This thesis used a combined doctrinal and empirical approach to examine failed immigration policies, ambiguities in the employment law, exclusion clauses in the health and safety law and working time regulation, and how the justice system has been failing the ODWs. The research found the UK Government’s refusal to extend some key employment legislations to protect household workers, the non-implementation of major international frameworks that protect domestic workers, and the inseparable link between employment and immigration create hurdles to achieve justice for ODWs. The thesis argues that although ODWs’ personal attributes, such as poor socio-economic background, may constitute a vulnerability risk, ODWs’ experiences are marred by the current visa system that increases their reliance on employers and has significantly tilted the employer-employee power in the employer’s favour, leading to continued abuse, exploitation, injustice, human trafficking, and modern-day slavery. This thesis advocates a review of the policy on ODWs, a re-examination of the strict link between immigration and employment, and a review of the law on employment discrimination. Finally, the thesis found a link between culture, ethnicity, and exploitation; this link needs further study.
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Lopez, Maria Mercedes. "The paradox of women migrant workers: agency and vulnerabilities. : Understanding the perspective of women migrant workers in Amman, Jordan." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-351977.
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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. Since 1970, migration studies have paid more attention to the role of women in migration processes, noting that patterns in migration are sometimes similar to men, but many other times differ, this is also known as the feminization of migration. Women, like men, migrate in search for a better future and new opportunities. Moreover, women migrant workers migrate to provide better future for their families back home. However, this migration process leaves great exposure to abuse and exploitation for both men and women. Feminist research argues, however, that this vulnerability is also gendered, affecting women and men differently. This study aims to contribute to understand the paradox of the agency of women migrant workers on the one hand, and vulnerabilities on the other, from the perspective of migrants themselves. Eleven interviews were conducted with women migrant workers in Amman. Some of the findings of this study show that the interviewees choose to migrate mainly due to economic needs, familial constraints and social structures, which in turn influence their power over their rights and situation, leaving them in vulnerable conditions prone to abuse. Moreover, the alternatives for migration are limited by social and economic structures, in addition to lack of knowledge of rights and obligations.
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Iliadou, Theologia. "The securitization of female migrant domestic labour in Greece since the 1990s." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/99429/.
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Despite the historically undervalued and yet politically charged character of domestic labour its contemporary emergence as a female migrant occupation exposes the group of female migrant domestic workers to comparatively to the past more intense exploitation and abuse. Within security regimes, which act as the primary means of management for female migrants, the national and gender identities of female migrant domestic workers are constructed as a threat to the national politics of social reproduction. This research project examines the lived inequalities and vulnerabilities of female migrant domestic workers in Greece as outcomes of the politicization of migration as a threat to the national societal security. It does so by utilizing the Copenhagen School’s securitization theory as the basis for the development of this project’s analytical framework and conducting research at the three securitization stages: negotiation, acceptance and institutionalization. It argues that the identified as characteristics of the contemporary migration wave, racism and xenophobia, rise in crime and growth of the informal economy, that have defined the experiences of both nationals and aliens are outcomes of the conceptualization and development of migration policies as exclusionary measures. Utilizing Huysmans concept of desecuritization the research project concludes by claiming that the conscious reorientation of the ethical basis upon which migration policy is established in Greece will result in the alleviation of the burdens of migration for both nationals and migrants.
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馬翠芬 and Chui-fun Ma. "An inquiry into the life situation of female migrant workers in Guangzhou." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31248457.
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Aziz, Karima. "Migration aspirations and experiences of female Polish migrant workers in the UK." Thesis, London Metropolitan University, 2018. http://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/3029/.
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This thesis investigates migration aspirations and experiences of female Polish migrant workers and returnees, who have been working and living in the UK. In the face of theoretical debates and a lack of knowledge on the experience of Polish women as migrant workers in the UK, a contextualised study prioritising the narratives of the interviewees was established. The theoretical and methodological approach is characterised by grounded theory methodology informed by theoretical sensitivity, which is combined with the analysis of biographical narrative interviews, semi-structured expert interviews, and secondary quantitative data. Through this approach, the conditions and influential factors that shape female Polish migrant workers’ aspirations and experiences, as well the way in which they make meaning of them, are scrutinised. Different patterns of migration aspirations have been constructed by the informants’ narratives – migration as a solution, as a family strategy or as an opportunity. Furthermore, specificities of working and living in the UK have been established, marked by different routes into employment, migrant and feminised work, and different patterns of work trajectories; as well as social networks, transnational lives and experiences of women and family life. Constructions of return decisions or the lack of return motivations, as well as experiences after return, bring forth the relevance of expectations resulting in the question: ‘return to what?’ Additionally, return plans have been adapted in the face of structural constraints or because of individual preferences, which were at times overruled in the context of return as a family strategy. Return was also constructed, however, as path to personal or professional fulfilment, as an opportunity, or as a result of disappointment. In the context of the conditions of the enlarged EU providing the freedom of movement, the post-transformation labour market in Poland, and the gendered and migrant labour market segmentation in the UK, as well as gender regimes, female Polish migrant workers actively mediated their migration aspirations and experiences.
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Anderson, Bridget. ""Just like one of the family"? : migrant domestic workers in the European Union." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/28795.
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Domestic work in private households is, together with prostitution, the most significant employer of newly arrived female migrants. This thesis examines the phenomenon of the racialisation of paid domestic labour in the European Union, and begins to outline the challenges this poses to feminism, political theory and community organisations. At an empirical level it begins to map the employment of migrant women in domestic work in Europe, to describe the work they perform, their living and working conditions and their employment relations. At a theoretical level it is necessarily concerned with the inadequacy of conceptual tools designed to describe more "traditional" forms of employment (i.e. traditionally of concern to white male sociologists) or to describe the experience of "women" within the domestic sphere (i.e. the experience of white middle class women). The paid domestic worker, even when she does the same task as the wife/daughter/mother, is differently constructed, for she is expressing and reproducing the female employer's status by serving as her "foil". I argue that it is the worker's "personhood" rather than their labour power, which the employer is attempting to "buy". As well as labour cost and supply, racist stereotypes and the reproduction of such stereotypes are important in determining demand for domestic workers, and this results in a racist hierarchy which constructs some women as being particularly "suitable" for domestic work. Migrant domestic workers' relation to the state encourages and reinforces the racialisation of domestic work and personal dependence on employers. While the applying of employment contracts to domestic workers may seem to offer some way forward there are many difficulties associated with applying employment contracts to the private domain, both theoretically and in workers' real experiences.
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Guo, Man. "Migration experience of floating population in China a case study of women migrant domestic workers in Beijing /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B35318387.
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Sainsbury, Sondra C. "The silent presence Asian female domestic workers and Cyprus in the new Europe /." Diss., Online access via UMI:, 2009.
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Guo, Man, and 郭漫. "Migration experience of floating population in China: a case study of women migrant domestic workers in Beijing." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B35318387.
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Celik, Nihal. "Immigrant Domestic Women Workers In Ankara And Istanbul." Master's thesis, METU, 2005. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12606539/index.pdf.
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This study focuses on the relationship between global economy and women&rsquos labor within a feminist standpoint by examining the personal and occupational experiences of immigrant women doing domestic work in Turkey. The main concern of this study is to investigate how working and living experiences of immigrant domestic women workers in Turkey are shaped by their illegal worker and immigrant status. The aim of this study is to listen to the personal experiences of immigrant domestic women workers from themselves, and understand their working conditions and social life experiences in Turkey. There emerged a trend in trading domestic workers between the poor and rich countries since 1990s where many parties, including governments, illegal recruitment agencies, and individual employers benefited. The high unemployment, poverty, shortfalls in living standards, and loss of government-sponsored public services due to the IMF policies implemented by the governments of developing countries severely affected poor and women. For their family survival, women of developing countries forced to migrate in order to seek domestic work in richer countries, where there is a high demand of middle class women for domestic workers. On the other hand, since domestic work is devalued as informal work, policy-makers do not pay sufficient attention, and provide a legal framework regulating the recruitment process and protecting the rights of immigrant domestic women workers. Therefore, immigrant domestic women workers are in a vulnerable position and open to exploitation due to their illegal and immigrant status. Turkey has been one of the domestic worker exporting countries since early 1990s mostly from post-Soviet countries. However, she neither has bilateral agreements with the sending countries nor a legal framework protecting the rights of immigrant domestic women workers. Hence, immigrant women are subject to arbitrary treatment and exploitation both in their workplace and outside, and remained invisible.
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Keyl, Shireen. "Subaltern Pedagogy: Education, Empowerment and Activism among African Domestic Workers in Beirut, Lebanon." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/333043.
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According to critical pedagogues and post-development scholars, globalization and transnational movement open up new avenues for pedagogy; to be sure, some scholars assert the development sector is in need of a paradigm shift to accommodate "new forms of pedagogy" (Appadurai, 2000) while subaltern scholars call for "alternative pedagogies" (Sherpa, 2014) for the theorizing and understanding of subaltern, marginalized groups within the educational realm. In the search for and transition to a subaltern pedagogy, it is necessary to tap into the very voices of those who comprise the subaltern, because, as Kelly and Lusis (2006) assert, "Researchers are frequently interested in understanding the experiences of 'the immigrant,' as an objective analytical category, rather than the experiences of 'an immigrant'" (p. 831). The aim of this study is to examine the interplay between knowledge production of migrant workers, power as domination and empowerment, and the appropriation of space in considering how these groups are able to segue subaltern epistemologies into forms of activism and empowerment; as such, this study looks at constructions and deconstructions of power among historically oppressed peoples in macro, meso and micro contexts. I assert that dominant discourses of power attempt to perpetuate an intentional subjugation of oppressed groups, in this case, migrant workers, especially female domestic workers. However, via the creation of a critical, oppositional consciousness by way of reciprocity and dialogism within the migrant worker and Lebanese activist community, migrant workers are able to harness agency and empowerment even within the most oppressive of societal conditions. What this research reveals is that migrant workers are able to create powerful counter-cultural communities of practice and epistemological spaces for learning. Based on this research, I assert a subaltern praxis, a paradigm shift comprising of a subaltern pedagogy and practice, that incorporates ideas of critical pedagogy, spatial analysis, and postcolonial/third world feminisms; this dialectic triad informs the subaltern interstitial and liminal experience, the need for the building of a critical consciousness for educators and learners alike, and a re-mapping and re-configuration of subaltern epistemologies for the benefit of all who desire to learn about migration and the refugee experience.
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Gutierrez-Garza, Ana. "The everyday moralities of migrant women : life and labour of Latin American domestic and sex workers in London." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2013. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1067/.
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This thesis is about women migrants from different countries of Latin America who earn a living as domestic and sex workers in London. Fleeing their respective economic and social crises, these women, middle-class in their home countries, experience a variety of personal dislocations when working in London’s care service sector market that make them feel as though they have been transformed into “different people”. These temporal and personal estrangements derive from the everyday challenges they face as intimate labourers, their undocumented status and the inevitable experience of illegality, the downward status mobility they experience, and the uncertainties they feel towards the future. Exploring migrants’ narratives of their journeys to the UK, the thesis exposes both the personal predicaments and structural problems that “pushed” them to migrate, as well as recounting and analysing their everyday lives as intimate labourers, the complexities that emerge from the commodification of intimacy and the tactics they use to negotiate the conflicts (both personal and work related) that emerge from such occupations. Following their working lives, the thesis analyses their ways of recuperating the social status they think they have lost, and of constructing spaces of temporary “normality”. These choices allow them to “reconstruct their persons” while also reflecting on the limited options they have as intimate migrant labourers in London.
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Nankobe, Vitalis Mbah. "Human Trafficking and Migrant Prostitution in Europe: A Qualitative Study of Nigerian Female Sex Workers in Italy." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21856.
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Luo, Shujuan. "YOUNG FEMALE MIGRANT WORKERS' LIFE SKILLS LEARNING AND PRACTICE, ITS SOURCES AND EMPOWERMENT PROPERTIES IN THEIR OWN WORDS." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1500459758354548.
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Allouache, Yannis-Adam. "Migration, Gender and the Political Economy of Care: The Exclusion of Migrant Domestic Workers and the Limits of Civic Nationalism in Taiwan." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36625.
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My thesis asks why Taiwan does not facilitate a path to citizenship to recent immigrants, despite the obvious advantages to do so, as the government’s attempt to promote its society as a model of civic nationalism in Asia, in relation to the pressing need to address labour shortages caused by population aging. I argue that the political economy of care provision that seeks to address the latter problem trumps concerns over national identity. I will look at the changes in the supply of labour in the sector of care since the 1990s as the evidence. Taiwan illustrates the case of East Asian nations’ rapid transition to post-industrial societies, which are now confronted with acute socio-demographic and care crises stemming from aging populations, low fertility rates and a traditional reliance on the family to provide social welfare. This thesis argues that this change in the supply of labour represents a key indicator of the multiple dimensions of the question of exclusion faced by migrant domestic workers in Taiwan. Civil society actors promoting Taiwan’s civic nationalism in the feminist and labour movements and in a few religious associations are unable to address the rights of foreign live-in caregivers because of the dynamics of the political economy of care in Asia and its dependence on migration for reproductive labour.
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Frection, Reginald. "Does the current process to address labour rights violations of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong provide an effective remedy?" Thesis, University of York, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/20670/.
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This thesis examines whether the process to redress complaints of labour rights violations provides an effective remedy to migrant domestic workers (MDW) in Hong Kong. The term ‘effective remedy’ is a ‘term of art’ used to identify a range of actionable human rights obligations to ensure redress measures are appropriate to the nature and gravity of the harm caused. If the necessary due diligence is exercised in fulfilling the government’s obligations, many labour rights violations should be recognised as more serious violations of human rights in the form of forced labour. However, the Hong Kong government is failing to recognise its affirmative obligations to provide a process that ensures effective remedies. A seven-month research study in 2015 of 80 MDWs in Hong Kong resulted in four significant findings; first, there is a high prevalence of forced labour which is not recognized or are miscategorised as simple labour disputes. 53 of the 80 MDWs studied were identified as being in forced labour situations. Interrelated with this finding, many of the victims did not identify themselves as such and did not seek a remedy. Only 12 MDWs made claims to the Labour Department, while 41 chose not to. In instances with no claims made, 24 MDWs returned to their employer accepting the mistreatment as part of their situation. Second, some indicators of forced labour were difficult to apply and had to be specially adapted to the nature of domestic work. Third, the research confirms the gross imbalance of power in the relationship between the MDW and the employer. Fourth, MDWs experience a variety of barriers to obtaining a remedy, which are significantly exacerbated by government policies and private actors. The study also exposed a lack of an appropriate legal and regulatory scheme to protect MDWs, further undermining any effective remedy.
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Nesbitt-Ahmed, Zahrah Dominique. "The same, but different : the everyday lives of female and male domestic workers in Lagos, Nigeria." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2016. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3359/.
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This current study explores the everyday lives of male and female domestic workers in Lagos, Nigeria. Drawing on narrative interviews with 63 domestic workers, in-depth semi-structured interviews with 12 employers and fiction-based research, it aims to understand the terrains of struggle and negotiation in the places people work, live and move through on a daily basis. This thesis is also concerned with the ways in which intersecting identities of gender, age, social class and ethnicity shape the experiences of workers. To do this, a framework of everyday life is used, drawing on the work of Susie Scott (2009) that consists of rituals and routines (specific practices), social order (rules that organise these practices) and challenging the taken-for-granted (norm-breaking acts). The three empirical chapters are explored in terms of these three themes. The first one explores how female live-in domestic workers’ everyday experiences of control and resistance are shaped by discourses around perceptions of their sexual availability - which is heavily impacted by the fact that they work and reside within the private space of the home. This is followed by discussions on how female live-outs who are mothers challenge the notion that paid domestic workers should only have obligations to the employing household and not to their own households, but what living out then means for these women – long daily commutes and balancing their paid domestic work with their unpaid domestic responsibilities. The final Chapter analyses how male domestic workers challenge the construction of their masculinity by employers as simultaneously safe and dangerous. Combined, they enable me to make sense of everyday life in paid domestic work and why it is important to do so.
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Xiang, Xiaoping, and 向小平. "The changing life experience of migration, intimacy and power among married female migrant workers in China: therise of dagongsao." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B47147155.
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Koh, Cha-ly. "The use of public space by foreign female domestic workers in Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49535.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2009.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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In globalizing cities around the world, middle class women are departing from their traditional domestic roles in child rearing and home management. This activity change creates a large influx of young, single and lower income female workers from developing nations such as the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia and others into Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur to serve as domestic workers. Because most female domestic foreign workers reside in the employers' homes, they seek a space elsewhere to meet their needs for privacy, familiarity and companionship on non-working days. As a result, there is an emerging phenomenon where large numbers of female foreign domestic workers gather in public spaces around the city to socialize and to enjoy a brief moment of privacy away from their employers. In these spaces, domestic workers form ephemeral cities. They transform public spaces by assigning areas for food consumption and production, areas to conduct recreational activities such as dancing and singing, places to exchange currencies to send back to their homes abroad and other spaces to fulfill their needs in a foreign city. Unfortunately, this phenomenon is often seen by local citizens as a form of nuisance, inconvenience or even threat, thus causing tension and sometimes conflict between locals and foreign workers. In this thesis, I carried out observation studies on FDW gathering sites in Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.
(cont.) Through this observation study, I found similar and different physical spatial characteristics across all three cities. Stakeholders also play varying roles in influencing the FDW gathering spaces in these cities. From this comparative study, I learned that the accommodation of FDWs in public spaces varies depending on various factors such as culture, demographics and city branding in each city. With the current exponential growth of transnational foreign domestic labor in the region and world, I hope that this study will inform sustainable humanitarian strategies in accommodating female foreign domestic workers around the world.
by Cha-ly Koh.
M.C.P.
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Yi, Yang Luechai Sringernyuang. "Life and health of floating women in chengdu, China : a study of induced abortion experience of unmarried female migrant workers /." Abstract, 2006. http://mulinet3.li.mahidol.ac.th/thesis/2549/cd388/4737917.pdf.
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Kourtoglou, Zoi. "THE BIOPOLITICS OF DOMESTIC WORK AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE FEMALE 'OTHER' : REIMAGINING SPACES, LABOR, AND REPRESENTATIONS OF LIVE-IN DOMESTIC WORKERS IN FILM." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Filmvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-149493.
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Representations of female characters in cinema have the effect of othering the female in front of the viewer’s gaze. Women’s characters are constructed along the lines of their gender and race difference. In this paper I focus entirely on the character of the woman domestic worker in four films: Ilo Ilo, The Second Mother, The Maid, and At Home. The paper aims to provide a different reading of this mostly trivialized character and rethink its otherness by pinpointing it in biopolitical labor and homes of biopower, namely of affect and oppression. I am interested in how labor can reconfigure the domestic space to a heterotopia, or what I call a ‘heterooikos’, which is the space occupied by the other. Finally, I will attempt an analysis that reimagines otherness captured by cinema, by locating, in the film text, techniques of resistance as a countersuggestion to techniques of character identification. My aim is to provide a different way to interact with subaltern subjects in film by recognizing otherness as part of an ethical response.
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Madonsela, Koketso Njabulo Gosiame. "My madam: same race, different class: living and working conditions of undocumented, migrant BaSotho domestic workers employed in black middle class houshold." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/35166.
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Jacklyn Cock’s Maids and Madams is a study on domestic work in the Eastern Cape which places a focus on black domestic workers who work in white families. Cock’s study was ground-breaking research within labour development in South Africa (with regards to domestic service). The apartheid system regarded domestic work as that of social reproduction: domestic workers left their families to replenish and reproduce the labour power of white families, whose members were employed in a formal workplace. The contribution to this system, according to Cock (1989), was unbreakable because they did not earn enough money to disrupt the system. The respondents of this thesis are undocumented migrant Basotho domestic workers. These domestic workers have much in common with Cock’s respondents. For one, they leave their homes and families to replenish the labour power of black middle class families, whose members are employed in a formal workplace. The difference between this thesis and Cock’s study is that the respondents’ employers are members of the black middle class. Furthermore, the employees are undocumented Basotho domestic workers. Undocumented, migrant, Basotho domestic workers are in a similarly vulnerable position to that of Cock’s respondents. This dissertation engages with the extent to which Maids and Madams is still relevant to the living and working conditions of a new vulnerable workforce in the domestic sector: undocumented, female, Basotho domestic workers employed in black, middle-class households in Gauteng. The dissertation also finds that the relationship between the black migrant domestic worker and the black middle class employer is influenced cultural aspects of what domestic chores represent in black families, and the element of respect from employers (particularly to elderly domestic workers) or lack thereof. This dissertation underlines that the term “ousi” makes the Basotho domestic workers a collective, and not individuals. Thus the term “ousi” can be viewed as the term that takes away the identity of the domestic worker. The theoretical framework of the research is labour process theory (LPT). The new wave of labour process theorists are much more focused on the service industry. LPT is significant to this research because its focus is on the subjective experiences of the workers. This is the core purpose of the thesis. The focus of the new wave LPT involves a shift from understanding workers at a macro level to understanding the subjective experiences of the workers (in the service industry) at a micro level. This provides an appropriate framework to study the subjective working and living experiences of undocumented, migrant, Basotho domestic workers. The research design is based on qualitative research. The research made use of in-depth and semi-structured interviews. The selection of respondents was done through purposive sampling. They findings of this research highlighted the central themes in the relevant literature. However, the key findings of this research also reveal tensions and contradictions that are not explored in detail in the existing literature. For example, the relationship between the black middle class employer and the black domestic worker has tensions which originate from a cultural context. The respondents of this dissertation and their employers are of the same race, yet are of a different class.
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Nampala, Lovisa Tegelela. "The Impact of Migrant Labour Infrastructure on Contract Workers in and from Colonial Ovamboland, Namibia, 1915 to 1954." University of Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8163.
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Philosophiae Doctor - PhDThis thesis explores the ways in which migrant labour infrastructure and the related operating practices of the South African colonial administration impacted on workers in and from the colonial north-central part of Namibia, formerly known as Ovamboland. This study stretches from the Union of South Africa’s occupation of the region in 1915 up to 1954 when the last Native Commissioner for Ovamboland completed his term of office and a new administrative phase began. Infrastructure refers to the essential facilities that an institution or communities install to use in order to connect or communicate.4 Vigne defines infrastructure as the mode of connections between techniques, practices, social values, cultures, economies and politics.5 This dissertation deals with two types of infrastructures.
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Klanarong, Nisakorn. "Female international labour migration from Southern Thailand /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2003. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phk632.pdf.
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Briones, Leah, and leahb@adam com au. "Beyond agency and rights: capability, migration and livelihood in Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong." Flinders University. Centre for Development Studies, 2006. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20070129.080025.
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More and more women from poor areas of the world are migrating to rich countries for domestic work. Given the increasing published research on their exploitation and slavery, much policy action has been oriented towards their protection as victims. Far from protecting the livelihood needs of these migrant workers, however, this victim-based approach has instead resulted in legitimising the protection of rich countries borders. An emerging perspective underscoring migrant womens agency is producing a counter-approach that fights for migrant workers rights: not as victims but as workers. Yet despite this important development in research and policy agendas, increasing inequality in the global economy and stringent immigration policies render a rights-based approach ineffective. From poor countries, and with very limited livelihood options, these migrant women choose overseas domestic work often at the expense of their human rights. As migrants, they are outsiders whose rights are superseded by the rights of the sovereign, receiving-state.
How is it possible then, to protect the rights of these workers? This thesis employs Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaums Capability Approach to evaluate the efficacy of these womens agency in overcoming victimisation. This evaluation gives equal consideration to the victim and rights-based perspectives. It synthesises the Capability Approach with Anthony Giddens Structuration Theory in order to reconcile the polarised theories underlying the victim and rights-based perspectives - feminist structural theory and migration agency theory, respectively. In so doing, the study is able to refine the conceptualisation of agency from the highly ambiguous rights-based approach, to a more theoretically sound and feasible capability approach. The main hypothesis is that agency requires capability to successfully mediate victimisation; agency in itself is insufficient. The study draws on the experiences of Filipina overseas domestic workers in Paris and Hong Kong to test this hypothesis, and demonstrates how it is capability that can turn the slave into the worker, and protect the worker from turning into a slave.
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Arifin, Bustomi. "Critical Analysis of Domestic Worker Condition in Malaysia and Singapore: Ameliorated Economic Condition vs. Gateway to Modern Slavery or Servitude." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23824.
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Some Asian countries such as Malaysia and Singapore have been experiencing economic growth which, in its turn have been stimulating migrant workers, mainly un-skilled, to migrate into those countries. The present paper tries to examine the human rights violations of domestic workers in Malaysia and Singapore which are occurring in the form of modern servitude or servitude. Moreover, the paper also tries to elaborate the working conditions of foreign domestic workers in Malaysia and Singapore. The present paper is using human rights coupled with intersectionality theories in order to examine whether enacted migration policies in Malaysia and Singapore in relation to migrant workers, though migration policies imposed to domestic workers are aimed to fulfill the national interests, can be regarded as a form of modern slavery or servitude . The present thesis is a case study which is examined by elaborating numerous literatures regarding the working conditions of foreign domestic workers in Malaysia and Singapore. The factual conditions of domestic workers in Malaysia and Singapore, namely the conditions and policies concerning the limitation of several rights of domestic workers will be described and analyzed under the human rights coupled with intersectionality perspectives.
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Li, Zhou. "The Role of Narrative in Identity Formation among New Generation Rural Migrant Women in Chongqing, China." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1426855888.
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Kaedbey, Dima. "Building Theory Across Struggles: Queer Feminist Thought from Lebanon." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1405945625.
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Silva, João Victor Marques da. "Trabalhadoras domésticas e o Estado Brasileiro: o racismo institucional, a teoria do reconhecimento e os direitos trabalhistas - a luta do SINDOMÉSTICO-BA no período 2010-2016." Universidade Catolica de Salvador, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/123456730/297.
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A presente pesquisa tem como principal eixo analisar como a luta por reconhecimento das trabalhadoras domésticas, no campo do Direito do Trabalho, evidencia o racismo institucional do Estado Brasileiro, por meio de uma inclusão incompleta. Para tanto, inicialmente, discutimos o desenvolvimento histórico do trabalho doméstico no país, partindo dos fundamentos da sociedade brasileira, da confluência de raça, classe e gênero na sua conformação e do debate teórico consolidado, com o intuito de perceber o seu quadro atual de exclusão social. Em seguida, enfocamos a constituição das relações de trabalho no Brasil e o papel que o Estado assumiu para a inserção do país no sistema capitalista e para a formação do trabalho livre como realidade ampla e concreta, com a finalidade de compreender como emerge na sociedade brasileira a temática da cidadania e os seus efeitos para a classe trabalhadora e, mais precisamente, para as trabalhadoras domésticas. Nessa linha, as teorias do reconhecimento, partindo-se de Charles Taylor, Axel Honneth e Nancy Fraser, surgem como substrato teórico consistente para compreender, de um lado, como se estruturam na contemporaneidade as desigualdades históricas incidentes sobre a dinâmica das relações de trabalho doméstico e, por outro lado, como enfrentar os seus dilemas para a desconstrução simbólica e material dessa realidade. Tais teorias articulam desigualdades de cunho socioeconômicos e valores culturais que reproduzem e tornam legítimas o reconhecimento denegado das trabalhadoras domésticas, razão pela qual o debate acerca do racismo institucional se faz necessário. Por fim, cotejamos as mudanças na sua inserção sociojuridica com a agenda de representação sindical, com o propósito de demonstrar como tal agenda se move pelo binômio redistribuição - reconhecimento, sendo que a inclusão incompleta das trabalhadoras domésticas é uma construção cujo substrato regulatório está no Estado brasileiro.
The current research has as its main axis the analysis of how the fight for the female domestic workers’ recognition, in the field of labor law, showcases the institutional racism of the Brazilian State through an incomplete inclusion. To do so, at first we discussed the historical development of domestic labor in the country, from the fundamentals of the Brazilian society, confluence of race, class and gender in its formation; and from the consolidated theoretical debate, aiming to notice its current state of social exclusion. Then, we focused on the constitution of the work relations in Brazil and the role that the State assumed towards the insertion of the country in the capitalist system and for the formation of free labor as a wide and concrete reality. The goal was to understand how the theme of citizenship comes up in the Brazilian society as well as its effects for the working class and, more precisely, for the female domestic workers. Thus, the theories of recognition, from Charles Taylor, Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser emerge as a consistent theoretical framework to understand, on the one hand, how the historical iniquities that strike the dynamics of domestic labor relations are structured. On the other hand, they help us understand how to face their dilemmas for the symbolic and material deconstruction of such reality. Those theories articulate socioeconomic iniquities and cultural values that reproduce and legitimize the recognition that is denied for the female domestic workers – which is the reason why the debate about institutional racism is necessary. Lastly, we connected the changes in the sociojuridical insertion of the female domestic workers with their agenda of union representation, aiming to show how such agenda moves through the binomial redistribution-recognition. The incomplete inclusion of those workers is a construction whose regulatory framework lies in the Brazilian State.
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Lee, Mi-ae. "Sortir de la chaîne du care De travailleuses socialistes chaoxianzu (朝鮮族) à domestiques migrantes en France, Corée du Sud et Chine." Thesis, Normandie, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NORMLH15.
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Cette thèse traite des effets de la migration sur le statut professionnel et social des travailleuses domestiques et des nouveaux rapports de subordination qui en découlent, analysés à l'intersection des rapports de genre, de classe et de « race ». Le but de cette recherche est d'aborder l'ordre hiérarchique de ces différents rapports et d'analyser les causes structurelles de la subordination. Les travailleuses migrantes chaoxianzu appartenaient à la classe symboliquement au pouvoir dans la Chine socialiste, en tant qu’ouvrières industrielles et agricoles. En examinant leur expérience de travail dans cinq villes de trois pays - France, Corée du Sud et Chine - nous analysons comment les conditions de travail de chaque société d’immigration affectent leur statut en tant que travailleuses. Les participantes à notre recherche vivent et perçoivent leur expérience de travail à la lumière de l’habitus professionnel de la Chine socialiste, basé sur la fierté en tant que travailleuses. Selon leur perception, dans la migration, elles ne changent pas pour un niveau hiérarchique et professionnel inférieur, mais souffrent, collectivement, de la position subalterne des travailleurs domestiques sans-papiers dans le référentiel de l’ordre hiérarchique de la société capitaliste. Plutôt qu'un travail trivial, elles perçoivent leur métier comme une somme de tâches nobles, physiques et émotionnelles. Elles s’inscrivent dans la chaîne globalisée du care. Mais, en s'interrogeant sur leur statut subalterne, elles remettent en cause la logique de reproduction de la hiérarchie socialeThis thesis deals with the effects of migration on the occupational and social status of domestic workers and the resulting new relationships of subordination that are analyzed at the intersection of gender, class and ‘race’ relations. The purpose of this research is to address the hierarchical order of these different relationships and to analyze the structural causes of subordination. The Chaoxianzu women migrant workers belonged to the class symbolically in power in socialist China, as industrial and agricultural workers. By examining their work experience in five cities in three countries - France, South Korea and China - we analyze how the working conditions of each immigration society affect their status as women workers. The participants in our research live and perceive their work experience in light of their professional habitus of socialist China, based on pride as women workers. According to their perception, in migrating they do not change for a lower hierarchical and professional level, but collectively suffer from the subordinate position of undocumented domestic workers typical for capitalist society’s hierarchical order. Rather than perceiving their job as trivial, they see it as a sum of noble, physical and emotional tasks. They are part of the global chain of care. But, in questioning their subordinate status, they undermine the logic inherent to the reproduction of social hierarchies
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Makoro, Mantuna. "The construction of illegality: Basotho migrant domestic workers' experiences." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/19987.
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This research report is in fulfilment of the requirements for the award of a degree of Masters in Anthropology Ethics protocol number H14/08/40
Department of Anthropology- Faculty of humanities
University of the Witwatersrand
March 2015The following research is a study on migrant Basotho Domestic workers. This research details their reasons for migrating by looking at socio economic and cultural factors that are at play in Lesotho. It documents their journey to South Africa by studying the border and how it constructs their illegality. This paper argues that by labelling migrants as illegal, South Africa is in fact perpetuating Basotho’s vulnerability and exploitation by South African employers. It also shows that there is a contradiction between South African labour, ILO convention 189 and Immigration act as the two former laws aim to protect migrants which the Immigration Act does not favour migrant domestic workers.
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YEN-JU, CHEN, and 陳妍如. "THE JOB SATISFACTION OF FEMALE MIGRANT WORKERS IN TAIPEI." Thesis, 1998. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20759048481568326463.
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Lo, Wen-Chia, and 羅文嘉. "The Study ofChinese Female Migrant Workers' Role and Image." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95749742525312587165.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
應用華語文學系
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In this paper, we closely analyze the following three representative works of recent films regarding how female foreign laborers are treated in Taiwan: "A Simple Life" (2011), "Yuning's Return" (2003), "ILO ILO" (2013). These three films reflect well-meaning endeavors that cast migrants through the usage of genial cinematic images, which equate them as family members. Meanwhile, the audience is encouraged to identify with the protagonist (the workers) and to develop cinematic intimacy with the characters. Our assessment of cinematic representation takes place within a critical analysis of the constitutive logic of domestic/healthcare work, namely the paradox of being “like a family, but not quite”. In spite of the fact that these films’ filmmakers attempt to include the migrant laborers as “one of the family,” such benign efforts are entangled with complex border management. As a result, in examining these three films we inquire into the unsettled tensions between congenial affirmation of migrant workers and the constrictive governance of migrant labor for the state’s regulatory purposes.
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Swider, Sarah Christine. "Transnational feminism the migrant domestic workers movement in Hong Kong /." 2005. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/58538858.html.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2005.Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-64).
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HUI, YAP TZE, and 葉施惠. "Life Course and Victimization Experience Among Indonesia Female Migrant Workers." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/88034613594566438602.
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犯罪學研究所
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An immigrant servant can be exploited by the recruitment agency or the employer and become a victim of human trafficking. In Taiwan, the Human Trafficking Prevention and Control Act (HTPCA) enacted in January, 2009 defines immigrant servants as a high-risk group subject to human trafficking, and the Department of Immigration has taken measures to protect and counsel rather controlled and counseling objects instead protected objects, but Malaysia does not yet appear relevant policy transition. Therefore, this study through depth interviews to understand a victim under different policy regimes victims course of differences and similarities, and slavery of modern globalization, mainly aims to explore the current situation and trend of the phenomenon of victimization. By way of using a life history perspective, the life course is divided into the following stages: the pre-recruitment stage, the recruitment stage, the post-recruitment stage before departure, the stage before moving into the employer’s residence in the destination country, and the victimized stage in the employer’s residence. Attempts have been made to study the personal life trajectories and turning points in the timeline, analyze and compare the roles played by Indonesia female migrant workers in life courses of victims from nationals in their own countries to victimized immigrants, and search for the relevance there between. The victim theory was then applied to discuss potential variables related to repeat victimization of immigrant servants in a hope to find out the possible explanatory factors that may influence the development of life course turn toward positive or negative, find out the possible factors to discontinue such victimization. Additionally, the current immigrant servant policy and policies against human trafficking were reviewed. The researcher collected relevant literature at first, and then used purposive sampling to gather samples. Interviews with the interviewees were conducted in person, online or via. The interviewees include three Indonesian immigrant servants in Malaysia and two Indonesian immigrant servants in Taiwan who suffered repeated or continuous exploitation at different stages of their life courses. The findings from interviewees: 1. The purposes of transnational working are to support family and getting out of the binding of traditional roles. 2. Interviewees generally suffer deception and information concealment in the process of immigration. 3. Interviewees experiences are universal and consistent with the definition of involuntary labor work 4. Most of the victims do not receive systematic assistance, and remain struggling in plight of victim. Individual traits and environmental risks are the main factors that lead to victimization. The stronger the social bond of interviewees, the less likely they would be affected by environmental risks. 5. Original family background and intimate dependency, are the keys of breaking out from victim life course. 6. Personal traits and environmental risks are the drivers to develop the life trajectory into negative direction. 7. Major life events can reverse the tendency of life through autonomous act in selection. 8. The earlier staring point of chronic victimization, the longer will the victims be engaged in the sustaining life course of victimization. There are three contributions to the existing literature. First, specific investigation on the victimization experience of Indonesia female migrant workers. Second, merging the life course perspective and the victim theory, expands the whole view of criminal phenomena. Third, standing on victims' perspective, penetrate the before and after life story of transnational workers.
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楊軒豪. "The Relationship between Domestic Migrant Workers and "Home" in Contemporary Taiwan Literature." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/x64q8z.
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碩士國立臺北教育大學
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According to the statistics database of the Ministry of Labour, until the end of March 2018, there are nearly 680,000 migrant workers in Taiwan but most citizen's understanding of domestic workers is only one-sided. Due to the fact that domestic workers work under the private sphere that is their employers’ home, the working space is difficult for others to intervene in the closed space by comparing to industrial migrant workers in the public sector or hospital nursing. Their situation is also unfamiliar for people who do not hire domestic workers at home. Therefore, this thesis explores the relation between domestic worker and “home,” from three different concepts: family, house and hometown by analyzing Gu Yu Ling Our Stories and Return Home, Four-way news’ Escape and the Immigrant Literature Award works. First of all, domestic worker is separate from the employer’s family, but the job requires domestic workers to stay with the family that they have no blood and marital relation with, be responsible for dutiful housekeeping with multiple identities, including daughter-in-law, wife and mother. Thus, it is necessary to explore migrant workers’ multiple identities within the domestic sphere and their relationship with the employer’s family. Secondly, staying in the employer’s house is never easy for migrant workers. The representation of the setting and arrangement in the employer’s house and rental apartment is worthy of examination to understand migrant workers’ status and sufferings. Finally, this thesis discusses how migrant worker’s hometown has been transformed in the process of their departure and return. Through analysing these three dimensions, this thesis demonstrates the emotional and imaginative relation between domestic migrant workers with different “homes” in contemporary Taiwan literature.
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LAI, CHIA-LING, and 賴佳玲. "Transfer Overseas Experience：The Social/Remittances of Indonesia Female Migrant Workers in Taiwan." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/d78fk6.
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Remittances is one of the major economic resources for developing countries and it also has great positive impact on economic development of home countries. Besides remittances, immigrants and migrants might bring home the values and behaviors of the receiving countries, which is known as Peggy Levitt’s social remittances. In this study, semi-structured interview was adopted and 12 Indonesia female migrant workers in Taiwan were invited as participants. Based on the interpretations of their working experiences in Taiwan and incomes, the study aimed to understand Indonesian female migrant workers’ money use and remittances behaviors and also to explore their daily life experiences in Taiwan and how social remittances were carried out. Due to their job, being domestic workers, employers basically covered their cost of living; therefore, most of their salary was wired back to home country. Meanwhile, interviewees concerned about their family’s living conditions, so most of their salary was mainly for improving family’s living environment and making their life quality better. Because interviewees’ economic conditions were getting better, they could plan out their future life more specifically. In terms of social remittances, because of the personal values, background and experiences in Taiwan, interviewees and their families in home country both relied on mobile devices and the internet more. Also, both of them had more pursuing modernization, Taiwan food culture and health concept. However, the results showed that once the interviewees got more addicted to the internet, social remittances became more difficult. Moreover, the health insurance policy of home country was not well established, and which made interviewees, used to the health insurance system in Taiwan, couldn’t remit the values and behaviors back to their home country. The results of the study were limited to interviews, lacking the evidences from field research.
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Wang, Chu-Chun, and 王筑群. "The Realization of Transnational Motherhood - A Case Study of Indonesian Domestic Migrant Workers." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/h2pq7k.
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碩士國立暨南國際大學
社會政策與社會工作學系
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The study discusses the practical problems that transnational motherhood would face after transferring to Taiwan, the ways they developed forms and experienced as a transnational motherhood, and committed to the role of being a mother and take care of their own children in a long geographical distance. The study is designed as a qualitative research that 12 domestic migrant workers. From Indonesia were intensively interviewed, combined with researcher’s self-reflection notes produced during the engagement in the field.The results listed as followings: 1. Domestic migrant workers may arrange alternative caretaker as education assistance. The objects of caretaker are usually spouse, biological mother or other relatives. Due to the condition of marriage and employment environment of Indonesian domestic migrant workers, few spouses would be a full-time caretaker; instead, natural mother of women would act as a main caretaker of children stayed behind, and relatives serve as a role to assist with education. 2. Being a pillar of family livelihood is deemed as a responsibility of a mother by domestic migrant workers. They maintain the living environment of children stayed behind by transferring the money and keep the function of income by selecting the representative to charge with financial affairs of family. Besides that, sending presents is a practical strategy as a role of mother. Domestic migrant workers prove the love to children and ease the emotion by getting them presents. 3. Communication technology also helps domestic migrant workers practice as a mother by supporting the relationship between parents and children. They communicate by smartphone and low-cost network service and upload media on social websites to establish a transnational space to express love, even govern the daily life of children between places through it. 4. Children stayed behind would have emotion issues for expecting the attention of their mother. Domestic migrant workers would consult and discuss about migration with them by methods such as express his/her unchanged love, help them recall the periods of being together, ease their desire at the stage by prospecting the future expectation of family and communicate sincerely. 5. Being transnational mother has both positive and negative effects to a domestic migrant worker. On the positive side, transnational mother gains economic independence and identifies herself as a breadwinner, which helps female gain access to re-education. However, domestic migrant workers are also in a situation of risk. Working overseas deplete both force and emotion of motherhood from labour. The study also discovered and provided the suggestions of social works and policy of migrant labour.
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"Excellent workers but wrong colour of skin : Canada's reluctance to admit Caribbean people as domestic workers and farm labourers." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2014-03-1449.
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In 1955 and 1966 Canada opened its doors to a limited number of Caribbean domestic workers and seasonal agricultural workers. Canadian government officials remarked that the programmes were part of Ottawa’s aid package to the Caribbean and that they would enhance trading relationships between Canada and the Caribbean, a view which had been echoed by other writers on the topic. This thesis argues that both programmes were instituted after Canada had exhausted all attempts to recruit adequate European labourers. The thesis also argues that both programmes were deliberately designed and executed to ensure that Canada got maximum benefits at low cost. Canada also attached unprecedented conditions to both schemes in an effort to significantly reduce the number of workers recruited. The thesis provides a thorough examination of the proposals by Caribbean governments, together with interest groups from Canada, to persuade Canada to establish these migrant programmes and the excuses and refusals by Canada to those proposals. The thesis documents the increasing recruitment of Mexican agricultural workers at the expense of Caribbean workers which further dispels the view that the migrant programmes were part of an aid package to the Caribbean. The thesis notes that unlike the domestic programme the agricultural programme was not a route towards landed immigrant status.
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林昭儀. "Social Network Concepts and Time-Space Movement Among the Migrant Domestic Workers in Taipei." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76862208615869967537.
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碩士臺北市立教育大學
社會學習領域教學碩士學位班
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Foreign workers of social welfare were started introducing into Taiwan since 1992. Until 2011, there are more than 180 thousands foreign workers of social welfare in Taiwan. Their daily routine and living area is close to their employer and the person taken care of. Sometimes they need to take care of elders, patients and children for 24 hours a day. For environmental adaption and psychological adjustment under long-term work pressure, they should timely go out to relax and seek support from the social network they construct in Taiwan. This research is aim at the social network and time-space movement of Vietnamese and Indonesian migrant domestic workers by participant observation and semi-structural Interviews. The results show that the size of their social network is small, and also high density and homogeneity due to language, culture, ethnic identity and movement. The factors affect the time-space movement include the health status of person taken care of, the requirements of employers and availability of day off. It usually confined to small area and fixed-route near their employers’ home. Some workers who could take day off may have broader range, but it still not far from the train and MRT station. Besides, there is interaction between social network and time-space movement. Their moving range and frequency may changed by social network, and social network may changed by moving opportunity and range.
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Noviantoro, Tri, and 馬拓里. "Job Satisfaction and Life Satisfaction Relationship among Female Indonesian Migrant Workers in Taiwan." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30676994749608275284.
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碩士國立中央大學
人力資源管理研究所
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The study is purposed to understand the relationship between job satisfaction, life satisfaction and demographic data among female Indonesian migrant workers in Taiwan. Six hypotheses are developed and survey methodology is adopted to test the hypotheses. Data collected from various cities in Taiwan and gathered 284 respondents with cluster sampling as proportioned. To measure the construct measurement, validity test by using factor analysis and reliability test by using internal consistency (Cronbach’s Alpha) were examined. Correlation analysis, one-way ANOVA and regression analysis examined to test the hypotheses. The findings indicated that education background is not making difference mean for each of job satisfaction, and life satisfaction. On other hand, working period give difference mean for job satisfaction and life satisfaction. Same with other previous studies, the correlation between job satisfaction and life satisfaction is positive and significant. Furthermore, job satisfaction explains 18.7% of life satisfaction and job satisfaction full mediated for working period to life satisfaction.
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Servando, Nerissa, and 那瑞莎. "Towards Step Migration from Taiwan to Canada:The Case of Filipino Migrant Domestic Workers’ Transitional Adaptation." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24724562661023038427.
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碩士國立臺灣師範大學
國際人力資源發展研究所
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Step migration, otherwise known as onward migration is a phenomenon referring to the movement of migrant labor from one country to another without the need to go back to the country of origin. While “brain drain” may hold true for the highly educated workers like doctors, engineers and scientists, subjects of this study are Filipino migrant domestic workers who are supposed to be mothering children or caring for families in home country. Conclusively due to lack of better employment or earning opportunities in home country, the Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) chose to migrate for work and do “menial labor” in Taiwan. For other reason, due to preconceived plans of migration to Canada through social networks and perceived better gains and benefits either known from acquainted friends, family or mass media. They gain valuable related experience in Taiwan then choose to step migrate in Canada under the Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP). A qualitative interview was done with 12 migrant domestic workers in Taiwan and Canada using semi structured questionnaire. The framework of the study represents a cycle of the transitional adaptation in the life and work adaptation of the Filipino migrant domestic worker. Transitional adaptation is a temporary process, prior to another cross-cultural adaptation. Three transitions are noted in the study during the five phases of their domestic life covering from Philippines, Taiwan and Canada highlighting the events while tying up with migration issues. Findings of this research may assist the subjects in their transitional adaptation, the labor sending and receiving countries in policy making, and inspire future researchers of migration theories.
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Chen, Hsiu-lien, and 陳秀蓮. "The double binding of public and private- The labor condition of migrant domestic workers in Taiwan." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35539405842909340623.
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Kuu, Yung-Hsiu, and 古雲秀. "Representation of Migrant Domestic Workers: The Meanings within Social Space, Commercial Texts and Audience's Interpretations." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39410994867888739008.
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碩士世新大學
新聞學研究所(含碩專班)
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This thesis analyzes how TV commercials represent migrant domestic workers in different spaces of Taiwanese society. This thesis also examines how audiences receive and interpret these representations of migrant domestic workers in the TV commercials. These representations and interpretations of the migrant domestic workers demonstrate how we imagine “the Other”. Through textual analysis, this research finds that as the Other in Taiwanese society, migrant domestic workers in TV commercials are presented with prominent differences from Taiwanese. Household space, the major working space of the migrant workers, is the most common scene in TV commercials. The migrant domestic workers appear to be part of the family, but in fact play the role of labor commodity there. They are responsible for domestic chores so that their mistresses are able to escape from them. Meanwhile, public space is the place the migrant workers are more likely to relax and show who they really are. Being out of the household space means they can temporarily be out of their masters’ control. Furthermore, through audience research, this study finds that the images of migrant domestic workers represented by TV commercials basically match their images in audiences’ perception. The characteristics of migrant domestic workers represented in TV commercials are the same ones through which audiences recognize them in daily life. TV commercials present part of migrant domestic workers life in Taiwan indeed, but at the same time demonstrate how “stereotyping” construct these representations of the Other. However, audiences do not simply take in these TV images as they are; they interpret them based on their understandings and concrete experiences regarding these migrant domestic workers in daily space in different ways.