Book Description
Using examples from a range of countries, this book illustrates how the media intervenes to affect the reception migrants receive, and how it stimulates prospective migrants to move.
Author : Russell King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 25,91 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1134584059
Using examples from a range of countries, this book illustrates how the media intervenes to affect the reception migrants receive, and how it stimulates prospective migrants to move.
Author : Wanning Sun
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 39,33 MB
Release : 2009-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134164815
Maid in China is the first systematic, book-length investigation of internal rural migration in post-Mao China focused on the day-to-day production and consumption of popular media. Taking the rural maid in the urban home as its point of departure, the book weaves together three years of engaged ethnographic research in Beijing and Shanghai with critical analyses of a diverse array of popular media, and follows three lines of inquiry: media and cultural production, consumption practices, and everyday politics. It unravels some of the myriad ways in which the subaltern figure of the domestic worker comes to be inscribed with the cultural politics of boundaries that entrench a host of inequalities—between rich and poor, male and female, rural and urban. Wanning Sun explores a number of paradoxes that the domestic worker lives out on a daily basis: her ubiquitous invisibility, her enduring transience, and her status as an intimate stranger. Collectively, these paradoxes afford her a unique window onto the spaces and practices of the modern Chinese city. This intimate stranger’s epistemological status makes her an unauthorized yet authoritative witness of urban residents’ social lives, offering a revealing lens through which to examine both the formation of new social relations in post-reform urban China, and the new social uses of space—both domestic and public—engendered by these relations.
Author : Shannon Kiely
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,53 MB
Release : 2011
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Author : Olivia Killias
Publisher : Gendering Asia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,10 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788776942267
This fascinating study unveils the workings of the Indonesian migration regime, one that sends hundreds of thousands of women abroad as domestic workers each year. Drawing on extended ethnographic research since 2007, the book literally follows migrant women from a matrilocal village in upland Central Java, women who actively place themselves in a position to enter the migration pipeline, knowing that their lives abroad will be hard and even dangerous, and that staying in the village is an option. From recruitment by local brokers to the 'training' received in secluded camps in Jakarta, employment in gated middle-class homes within Indonesia and in Malaysia and back home again, Olivia Killias tracks the moral, social, economic and legal processes by which women are turned into 'maids'. The author's analysis uncovers the colonial genealogies of contemporary domestic worker migration and demonstrates that, ironically, the legalization of the migration industry does not automatically improve the situation of the women in its care.0Rather, Killias unmasks the gendered moralizing discourses on 'illegal' migration and 'trafficking' as legitimizing indentured labour and constraining migrant mobility. By exploring the workings of the Indonesian state's overseas legal labour migration regime for migrants, she brings the reader directly into the nerve-racking lives of migrant village women, and reveals the richness and ambiguity of their experiences, going beyond stereotypical representations of them as 'victims of trafficking'.
Author : Shannon Kiely
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Page : pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 2011
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Author : Anju Mary Paul
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 25,88 MB
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1108127266
Multinational Maids offers an in-depth investigation into the international migrations of Filipino and Indonesian migrant domestic workers. The author taps on her rigorous study of more than 1,200 subjects' migration trajectories to reveal how these migrants work in a series of overseas countries to improve their lives and, in some cases, seek permanent residence in another country. Challenging the portrayal of Asian migrant domestic workers as victims of globalization, Multinational Maids reveals migrants' agency and strategic thinking under conditions of constraint. At the market level, the establishment of guestworker programmes for migrant domestic workers in multiple countries has created a global labor market. A transnational diaspora shapes migrants' evolving destination imaginaries, while manpower recruitment and placement agencies create transnational mobility structures. In addition, differing destination hierarchies and degrees of access to resources lead to the adoption of divergent stepwise trajectories. Written in an accessible manner, Multinational Maids appeals to migration scholars, policymakers, activists and students.
Author : Youna Kim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351606662
This book explores the transnational mobility, everyday life and digital media use of childcare workers living and working abroad. Focusing specifically on Filipina, Indonesian, and Sri Lankan nannies in Europe, it offers insights as to the causes and implications of women’s mobility, using data drawn from ethnographic research examining transnational migration, work experiences, family, and relationships. While drawing attention to the hidden, largely invisible and marginalized lives of these women, this research reveals the ways in which digital media, especially the use of mobile phones and the Internet, empower them but also continue to reinforce existing power relations and inequalities. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives from media and communications, sociology, cultural studies and anthropology, the book combines theoretical perspectives with grounded case studies.
Author : Janet Henshall Momsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 1134655657
This book examines a wide range of migration patterns which have arisen, and exposes the tensions and difficulties including: * legal and empowerment issues * cultural and language diversities and barriers * the impact of live-in employment. The book features case studies taken from Europe, South and North America, the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa and uses original fieldwork using quantitative and qualitative methods.
Author : Arianne M. Gaetano
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 25,10 MB
Release : 2004-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0231501730
This book explores the impact of migration on the identities, values, worldviews, and social positions of migrant women in contemporary China based on original fieldwork as well as in-depth research in multiple regions of China.
Author : Deborah Oxley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,92 MB
Release : 1996-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521446778
This analysis of female transports to Australia reveals their significant contribution to the new economy.