Migration and Domestic Work: The Collective Organisation of Women and Their Voices from the City

by Sue Ledwith and Gaye Yilmaz

Book Overview

With female migrants dominating low paid and ever-expanding domestic work worldwide, this book brings together the voices of 120 migrating women of 28 national identities and 10 different religious affiliations. Together they tell how patriarchal and religious gender codes in the family and at work shape their new lives in London, Berlin and Istanbul. Through their own accounts, the study explores the intersecting multiple and gendered identities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319847090
• ISBN13: 9783319847092
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"