Global care work : gender and migration in Nordic societies /

Presenting empirical research on the lives of care workers, sex workers, au pairs, and their families, this anthology is a unique study of gender and migration. Written by researchers from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, the account brings the Nordic example to the international debate on how...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Isaksen, Lise Widding
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : Nordic Academic Press, 2011.
Temas:
Women immigrants > Employment > Scandinavia.
Women immigrants > Scandinavia > Social conditions.
Immigrantes > Travail > Scandinavie.
Immigrantes > Scandinavie > Conditions sociales.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Women in Business.
Social policy.
Women immigrants > Social conditions.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
Scandinavia > Social policy > Congresses.
Scandinavia.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; 1. Introduction: global care work in Nordic societies
  • Lise Widding Isaksen; I Domestic Work and Images of Equality; 2. Au-pair migration and new inequalities: The transnational production of corruption
  • Helle Stenum; 3. The snake in the grass of gender equality: Au-pairing in women-friendly Norway
  • Mariya Bikova; 4. Cultural exchange or cheap domestic labour?: Constructions of 'au pair' in four Nordic countries
  • Catharina Calleman; 5. Doing gender equality: Cleaners employed in Norwegian middle-class homes
  • Tove Ingebjørg Fjell.
  • II Transnational Experience and the Labour Market6. Sex workers' transnational and local motherhood: presence and/or absence?
  • Hanne Marlene Dahl & Marlene Spanger; 7. Transnational care: The social dimensions of international nurse recruitment
  • Lise Widding Isaksen; 8. Care work and migration politics in Sweden
  • Ellinor Platzer; III The Nation, Citizenship and Democracy; 9. Global care and Finnish social policy
  • Minna Zechner; 10. Public care work in private contexts: A historical perspective on the Swedish welfare state
  • Karin Carlsson.
  • 11. Global domestic workers in Denmark: Labour market regulation, union representation, and solidarity strategies
  • Lise Lotte Hansen; About the authors.

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