Migrant Domestic Workers and Family Life: International Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Domestic and Care Work of Migrant Women and the Right to Family Life....Pages 1-24
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Transnational Domestic Work and Right to Family Life in International and European Law....Pages 27-51
Au Pair Arrangement in Norway and Transnational Organization of Care....Pages 52-72
License to Care? Migrant Domestic Workers in Spanish Employment and Family Policy....Pages 73-87
Invisibility, Exploitation, and Paternalism: Migrant Latina Domestic Workers and Rights to Family Life in Barcelona, Spain....Pages 88-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Growing Up With Migration: Shifting Roles and Responsibilities of Transnational Families of Ukrainian Care Workers in Italy....Pages 109-129
Family Rights in a Migratory Context: Whose Family Comes First?....Pages 130-144
Live-in Caregivers in Canada: Servitude for Promissory Citizenship and Family Rights....Pages 145-161
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
Reinventing Intimacy and Identity: Filipina Domestic Workers’ Strategies for Coping with Family Separation in Dubai....Pages 165-188
Renegotiating Family and Work Arrangements while Caring Abroad: Paraguayan and Peruvian Women in Argentina....Pages 189-210
In the Grips of Work/Family Imbalance: Local and Migrant Domestic Workers in Slovenia....Pages 211-230
The Transnational Family as a Resource for Political Mobilization....Pages 231-253
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
Struggling to Make Time for Family: Work and Family Life of Korean-Chinese Institutional Care Workers in South Korea....Pages 257-275
Being a Member of the Family? Meanings and Implications in Paid Migrant Domestic and Care Work in Madrid....Pages 276-299
“Weekend-Families” of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon....Pages 300-316
Right to Family Life and Reciprocity of Care: Prospects for Care of Aging Migrant Carers....Pages 317-331
Epilogue: The Meaning of Rights to Family Life....Pages 332-335
Back Matter....Pages 337-341