TY - BOOK ID - 46269649 TI - Gender, work and migration : agency in gendered labour settings AU - Amrith, Megha AU - Sahraoui, Nina PY - 2018 SN - 1351846213 1315225212 1351846221 0415788528 0367856603 9781315225210 9781351846202 9780415788526 9781351846219 9781351846226 PB - Taylor & Francis DB - UniCat KW - Women migrant labor. KW - Migrant women labor KW - Migrant women workers KW - Women migrant workers KW - Migrant labor KW - gender KW - work KW - migration UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46269649 AB - While the feminisation of transnational migrant labour is now a firmly ingrained feature of the contemporary global economy, the specific experiences and understandings of labour in a range of gendered sectors of global and regional labour markets still require comparative and ethnographic attention. This book adopts a particular focus on migrants employed in sectors of the economy that are typically regarded as marginal or precarious – domestic work and care work in private homes and institutional settings, cleaning work in hospitals, call centre labour, informal trade – with the goal of understanding the aspirations and mobilities of migrants and their families across generations in relation to questions of gender and labour. Bringing together rich, fieldwork-based case studies on the experiences of migrants from the Philippines, Bolivia, Ecuador, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Mauritius, Brazil and India, among others, who live and work in countries within Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America, Gender, Work and Migration goes beyond a unique focus on migration to explore the implications of gendered labour patterns for migrants’ empowerment and experiences of social mobility and immobility, their transnational involvement, and wider familial and social relationships. ER -