Ethiopian Migrant Domestic Workers: Migrant Agency and Social Change

by Bina Fernandez

This book tells the stories of the Ethiopian women who migrate to work as domestic workers in the Middle East. Drawing on qualitative research in Ethiopia, Lebanon and Kuwait, the author reveals how women's aspirations to migrate are constituted within unequal gendered structures of opportunity in Ethiopia and asks us to consider how gender, race, class and nationality intersect in the construction of migrant subjectivities and agency. By analysing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030240541
• ISBN13: 9783030240547
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"