Unfree : migrant domestic work in Arab states /

"A stirring account of the experiences of migrant domestic workers, and what freedom, abuse, and power mean within a vast contract labor system. In the United Arab Emirates, there is an employment sponsorship system known as the kafala. Migrant domestic workers within it must solely work for th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Women household employees > United Arab Emirates > Social conditions.
Women foreign workers > United Arab Emirates > Social conditions.
Foreign workers, Filipino > United Arab Emirates > Social conditions.
Contract labor > United Arab Emirates.
Employées de maison > Émirats arabes unis > Conditions sociales.
Travailleurs étrangers philippins > Émirats arabes unis > Conditions sociales.
Main-d'œuvre contractuelle > Émirats arabes unis.
Travailleuses étrangères > Émirats arabes unis > Conditions sociales.
Contract labor
Women foreign workers > Social conditions
Women household employees > Social conditions
United Arab Emirates
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : what is unfree labor?
  • Legal infantilization and the unfreedom of servitude
  • Managing vulnerable migrants
  • Mobilizing morality
  • Escaping servitude for the unfreedom of criminalization
  • Mobility pathways and the unfreedom of poverty
  • Conclusion : the moral project of unfree labor.

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