Overview
- Draws on field research conducted in both the origin country (Ethiopia) and two major destination countries (Lebanon and Kuwait)
- Examines the important implications behind Ethiopian women's sacrifices that affect the complex layers of family and community social reproduction
- Analyses the agency of migrant domestic workers, in contrast to other literature that tends to focus on their experiences of abuse and mistreatment by employers
Part of the book series: Mobility & Politics (MPP)
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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 social reproduction both in Ethiopia and the destination countries, the book offers fresh empirical and theoretical insights into the largest stream of women’s autonomous international migration from Africa.
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About the author
Bina Fernandez is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethiopian Migrant Domestic Workers
Book Subtitle: Migrant Agency and Social Change
Authors: Bina Fernandez
Series Title: Mobility & Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24055-4
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24054-7Published: 20 August 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24055-4Published: 06 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2731-3867
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3875
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 156
Topics: African Politics, Migration, Middle Eastern Politics, Politics and Gender, Women's Studies