For over half a century, the Middle East has been major migration corridor for domestic workers from Asia and Africa. This book Illuminates the multidimensionality of these workers’ lives as they engage in finding a balance between acting and being acted upon, struggle and accommodation, and movement and stasis.
Mục lục
1. Making a Home in the World: Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East; Bina Fernandez and Marina de Regt 2. Forging Intimate and Work Ties: Migrant Domestic Workers Resist in Lebanon; Amrita Pande 3. Degrees of (un)freedom: The Exercise of Agency by Ethiopian Migrant Domestic Workers in Kuwait and Lebanon; Bina Fernandez 4. Immobilized Migrancy: Inflexible Citizenship and Flexible Practices Among Migrants in the Gulf; Pardis Mahdavi 5. The ‘Mama Mary’ of the White City’s Underside: Reflections on a Filipina Domestic Workers’ Block Rosary in Tel Aviv, Israel; Claudia Liebelt 6. Creating a ‘New Home’ Away from Home: Religious Conversions of Filipina Domestic Workers in Dubai and Doha; Naomi Hosoda and Akiko Watanabe 7. Caring for the Future in the Kingdom: Saudi and Filipino Women Making Home in a World of Movement; Nada Elyas and Mark Johnson 8. ‘Shall We Leave or Not?’ Ethiopian Women’s Notions of Home and Belonging and the Crisis in Yemen; Marina de Regt
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Marina de Regt, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Nada Elyas, Taibah University, Madinah, Saudia Arabia, and University of Hull, UK Bina Fernandez, University of Melbourne, Australia Naomi Hosod, Kagawa University, Japan Mark Johnson, University of Hull, UK Claudia Liebelt, University of Bayreuth, Germany Pardis Mahdavi, Pomona College, USA Amrita Pande, University of Cape Town, South Africa Akiko Watanabe, Bunkyo University, Japan
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