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Moving out, back and up : international migration and development prospects in the Philippines
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ISBN: 9718789146 9789718789148 Year: 2008 Publisher: Quezon City, Philippines Scalabrini Migration Center

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Attempts to clarify the links between international migration and development in the Philippines by answering the following questions: 1) has the model of migration management contributed to sustainable development; and 2) will more international migration contribute to sustainable development.


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Empowering migrant women : why agency and rights are not enough
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ISBN: 9780754675327 0754675327 9786612054624 1282054627 0754696677 1317144163 1315579391 1317144155 9780754696674 9781315579399 9781317144144 9781317144151 Year: 2009 Publisher: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,

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Based on insights from Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong, this volume breaks through the polarized thinking and migration-centric policy action on the protection of migrant women domestic workers from abuse to link migrants' rights and victimization with livelihood, migration and development.

Made in the Philippines
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ISBN: 1280047925 0203799895 0203694171 0415700159 0367863812 9780203799895 9786610047925 6610047928 9780415700153 9781135996567 9781135996604 9781135996611 1135996601 9780367863814 9781280047923 Year: 2004 Publisher: London New York RoutledgeCurzon


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Foreign workers in Israel
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ISBN: 0791476898 0791477096 1441603719 9781441603715 9780791477090 9780791476895 Year: 2009 Publisher: Albany SUNY Press

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In this account of a social experiment gone awry, Israel Drori exposes a little-known and recent phenomenon: the importation of foreign workers from Third World economies to Israel. Focusing on Romanian, Thai, and Filipina migrants brought to Israel for specified periods of employment, Drori examines the effect of migrants on Israeli society, particularly the issue of national identity. What began as a political corrective—avoiding the danger of hiring Palestinians to do work that Jewish Israelis would not—has developed into a social and economic problem the state does not know how to handle. In addition to examining the work experiences and social lives of these workers, Drori also situates the Israeli case within a global context, where many affluent nations have significant populations of marginalized, undocumented workers.

Maid to order in Hong Kong
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ISBN: 1501716948 0801460468 9780801460463 9780801446474 0801446473 9780801473234 0801473233 9781501716942 Year: 2007 Publisher: Ithaca Cornell University Press

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Middle-class Chinese women in the global city of Hong Kong have entered the workforce in unprecedented numbers over the past three decades, and the demand for foreign domestic workers has soared. A decade ago some foretold the decline in foreign workers and the influx of mainland workers. But today over 120,000 women from the Philippines, over 90,000 from Indonesia, and thousands more from other parts of South and Southeast Asia serve as maids on two-year contracts in Hong Kong, sending much needed remittances to their families abroad. Nicole Constable tells their story by updating Maid to Order in Hong Kong with a focus on the major changes that have taken place since Hong Kong's reunification with mainland China in 1997, the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, and the outbreak of SARS in 2002-2003. Interweaving her analysis with the women's individual stories, she shows how power is expressed in the day-to-day lives of Filipina domestic workers and more-recent Indonesian arrivals.


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The Force of Domesticity : Filipina Migrants and Globalization
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ISBN: 0814768555 0814767346 0814767354 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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Taking as her subjects migrant Filipina domestic workers in Rome and Los Angeles, transnational migrant families in the Philippines, and Filipina migrant entertainers in Tokyo, Parreñas documents the social, cultural, and political pressures that maintain women’s domesticity in migration, as well as the ways migrant women and their children negotiate these adversities.Parreñas examines the underlying constructions of gender in neoliberal state regimes, export-oriented economies such as that of the Philippines, protective migration laws, and the actions and decisions of migrant Filipino women in maintaining families and communities, raising questions about gender relations, the status of women in globalization, and the meanings of greater consumptive power that migration garners for women. The Force of Domesticity starkly illustrates how the operation of globalization enforces notions of women’s domesticity and creates contradictory messages about women’s place in society, simultaneously pushing women inside and outside the home.

Human rights and migrant domestic work : a comparative analysis of the socio-legal status of Filipina migrant domestic workers in Canada and Hong Kong
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ISBN: 1280868511 9786610868513 1429453621 9047408039 1433707640 9781429453622 9789004145276 9004145273 9781433707643 9004145273 Year: 2005 Volume: 24 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,

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On a general level, this research project concerns ways in which the domestic and international laws relating to the situation of migrant domestic workers (MDWs) are shaped by broader socio-political and economic factors. More specifically, this dissertation examines the human rights situation of Filipina MDWs who participate in Canada's Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP). It attempts to meet these objectives, in part, by undertaking a limited comparison of the situation of these Filipina MDWs and the Filipina MDWs in Hong Kong. The comparison is meant to further test and validate the arguments and proposals presented in this dissertation regarding the socio-legal status of Filipina MDWs under Canada's LCP. This is done through an analysis of existing data on Filipina MDWs, and a consideration of the ways in which the relevant laws and policies in these two jurisdictions affect, create and/or perpetrate the status quo in this area of social life. The main explanatory theoretical framework that is deployed is the Third World Approaches to International Law (the TWAIL theory).


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Servants of globalization : migration and domestic work
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ISBN: 9780804791519 9780804796149 9780804796187 0804796181 0804796149 0804791511 Year: 2015 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press

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Servants of Globalization offers a groundbreaking study of migrant Filipino domestic workers who leave their own families behind to do the caretaking work of the global economy. Since its initial publication, the book has informed countless students and scholars and set the research agenda on labor migration and transnational families. With this second edition, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas returns to Rome and Los Angeles to consider how the migrant communities have changed. Children have now joined their parents. Male domestic workers are present in significantly greater numbers. And, perhaps most troubling, the population has aged, presenting new challenges for the increasingly elderly domestic workers. New chapters discuss these three increasingly important constituencies. The entire book has been revised and updated, and a new introduction offers a global, comparative overview of the citizenship status of migrant domestic workers. Servants of Globalization remains the defining work on the international division of reproductive labor.

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