Migrant Domestic Workers and Family Life International Perspectives [Hardcover]

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.1. Introduction: Domestic and Care Work of Migrant Women and the Right to Family life; Maria Kontos; Glenda Tibe Bonifacio I. FRAMING LEGALITIES, EMPLOYMENT, AND FAMILY RIGHTS 2. Transnational Domestic Work and Right to Family Life in International and European Law; Dorothee Frings 3. Au pair Arrangement in Norway and Transnational Organization of Care; Mariya Bikova 4. License to Care? Migrant Domestic Workers in Spanish Employment and Family Policy; Elin Peterson 5. Invisibility, Exploitation and Paternalism: Migrant Latina Domestic Workers and Rights to Family Life in Barcelona, Spain; Gabriela Poblet Denti II. PUBLIC DISCOURSE, FAMILY SEPARATION AND REUNIFICATION 6. Growing Up with Migration: Shifting Roles and Responsibilities of Transnational Families of Ukrainian Careworkers in Italy; Olena Fedyuk 7. Family Rights in a Migratory Context: Whose Family Comes First?; Magdalena D?az Gorfinkiel 8. Live-in Caregivers in Canada: Servitude for Promisory Citizenship and Family Rights; Glenda Tibe Bonifacio III. REMOTE MOTHERING, SURVIVAL STRATEGIES, AND MOBILIZATION 9. Reinventing Intimacy and Identity: Filipina Domestic Workers' Strategies for Coping with Family Separation in Dubai; Julia Lausch 10. Renegotiating Family and Work Arrangements: Paraguayan and Peruvian Domestic Workers in Argentina; Aranzazu Recalde 11. In the Grips of Work/Family Imbalance: Local and Migrant Domestic Workers in Slovenia; Majda Hr enjak; Mojca Pajnik 12. Transnational Family as Resource for Political Mobilization; Valerie Francisco IV. THE METAPHOR OF 'FAMILY MEMBER' 13. Struggling to Make Time for Family: Work and Family Life of Korean-Chinese Institutional lƒT