Migrant Domestic Workers and Family Life : International Perspectives

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. Combining legal, sociological and social policy perspectives, it takes an interdisciplinary approach to international and national legal frameworks, the political economy of globalised reproductive labour, and the experience and coping strategies of migrant domestic and care workers. Highlighting constructed, ideological and imagined responses to life away from home, it offers theoretical, empirical and international perspectives on the right to a family life. Bringing together established and emerging scholars from a variety of academic disciplines, it focuses in particular on the voices of migrant domestic workers and their positioning as active subjects with agency to articulate their needs and claims. -- Provided by Publisher 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 "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 Koreanâ#x80;#x93;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 â#x80;#x9C;Weekend-Familiesâ#x80;#x9D; 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." Cover 1 Title 4 Copyright 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Notes on Contributors 9 1 Introduction: Domestic and Care Work of Migrant Women and the Right to Family Life 13 Part I Framing Legalities, Employment, and Family Rights 37 2 Transnational Domestic Work and Right to Family Life in International and European Law 38 3 Au Pair Arrangement in Norway and Transnational Organization of Care 63 4 License to Care? Migrant Domestic Workers in Spanish Employment and Family Policy 84 5 Invisibility, Exploitation, andPaternalism: Migrant Latina Domestic Workers and Rights to Family Life in Barcelona, Spain 99 Part II Public Discourse, Family Separation, and Reunification 118 6 Growing Up With Migration: Shifting Roles and Responsibilities of Transnational Families of Ukrainian Care Workers in Italy 119 7 Family Rights in a Migratory Context: Whose Family Comes First? 140 8 Live-in Caregivers in Canada: Servitude for Promissory Citizenship and Family Rights 155 Part III Remote Mothering, Survival Strategies, and Mobilization 172 13 Struggling to Make Time for Family: Work and Family Life of Korean–Chinese Institutional Care Workers in South Korea 263 14 Being a Member of the Family? Meanings and Implications in Paid Migrant Domestic and Care Work in Madrid 282 15 “Weekend-Families” of Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon 306 16 Right to Family Life and Reciprocity of Care: Prospects for Care of Aging Migrant Carers 323 Epilogue: The Meaning of Rights to Family Life 338 Index 342