Deskilling Migrant Women in the Global Care Industry

by Sondra Cuban

Book Overview

This book explores the gendered geographies of skilled migration, specifically the practices, dispositions, relationships and resources of professional women who participate in the global care industry. Drawing on a wealth of interviews with migrant women care assistants and experts in the fields of labour, care and migration, the book address three major questions: Why do professional women migrate for jobs for which they are overqualified? What...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230342337
• ISBN13: 9780230342330
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.6"