This book tells the stories of the Ethiopian women who migrate to work as domestic workers in the Middle East. Drawing on qualitative research in Ethiopia, Lebanon and Kuwait, the author reveals how women’s aspirations to migrate are constituted within unequal gendered structures of opportunity in Ethiopia and asks us to consider how gender, race, class and nationality intersect in the construction of migrant subjectivities and agency. By analysing the impact of migration on socia...
Inhoudsopgave
1. The Will to Change.- 2. ‘We are like oil to our government’.- 3. (De)constructing docility at the destinations.- 4. ‘We Ethiopians are more sociab...
Over de auteur
Bina Fernandez is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
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Taal Engels ● Formaat PDF ● Pagina’s 156 ● ISBN 9783030240554 ● Bestandsgrootte 1.8 MB ● Uitgeverij Springer International Publishing ● Stad Cham ● Land CH ● Gepubliceerd 2019 ● Downloadbare 24 maanden ● Valuta EUR ● ID 7105317 ● Kopieerbeveiliging Sociale DRM