Migrant Domestic Workers and Family Life : International Perspectives.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Domestic and Care Work of Migrant Women and the Right to Family Life -- Part I Framing Legalities, Employment, and Family Rights -- 2 Transnational Domestic Work and Right to Family Life in International and European Law -- 3 Au Pair Arrangement in Norway and Transnational Organization of Care -- 4 License to Care? Migrant Domestic Workers in Spanish Employment and Family Policy -- 5 Invisibility, Exploitation, andPaternalism: Migrant Latina Domestic Workers and Rights to Family Life in Barcelona, Spain -- Part II Public Discourse, Family Separation, and Reunification -- 6 Growing Up With Migration: Shifting Roles and Responsibilities of Transnational Families of Ukrainian Care Workers in Italy -- 7 Family Rights in a Migratory Context: Whose Family Comes First? -- 8 Live-in Caregivers in Canada: Servitude for Promissory Citizenship and Family Rights -- Part III Remote Mothering, Survival Strategies, and Mobilization -- 13 Struggling to Make Time for Family: Work and Family Life of Korean-Chinese Institutional Care Workers in South Korea -- 14 Being a Member of the Family? Meanings and Implications in Paid Migrant Domestic and Care Work in Madrid -- 15 "Weekend-Families" of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon -- 16 Right to Family Life and Reciprocity of Care: Prospects for Care of Aging Migrant Carers -- Epilogue: The Meaning of Rights to Family Life -- Index.

This timely and innovative book delivers a comprehensive analysis of the non-recognition of the right to a family life of migrant live-in domestic and care workers in Argentina, Canada, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Norway, the Philippines, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, the United States of America, and Ukraine.

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