A Risky Business?

This book is about migration as a form of risk-taking. Based on Ukrainian women's experiences in the Polish domestic work sector, it presents a new approach to analyse movements of female migrants responding to the demand for household labour around the world. Risks involved in migration and in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kindler, Marta
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Labor & Workers' Economics.
Business & Economics.
Hausarbeit
Ukrainische Einwanderin
Women foreign workers.
Ukrainians.
Migration, Internal.
Household employees.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
Sociology and anthropology.
Politics and government.
Migration, immigration and emigration.
Social issues and processes.
Society and culture: general.
Society and social sciences.
Migration interieure > Europe.
Ukrainiens > Pologne > Varsovie.
Employes de maison > Pologne > Varsovie.
Travailleuses etrangeres > Pologne > Varsovie.
Migration, Internal > Europe.
Ukrainians > Poland > Warsaw.
Household employees > Poland > Warsaw.
Women foreign workers > Poland > Warsaw.
Warschau
Poland > Warsaw.
Europe.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Ukrainian migrant women, migrant domestic work and risk
  • 2. Risk, migration and migrant domestic work : selected theory and research review
  • 3. Theoretical approach and research methodology applied in this study
  • 4. Ukrainian migrant women's images of risk
  • 5. Legal risks of migration and legal risk-balancing strategies
  • 6. Risks and risk strategies in migrant domestic work
  • 7. Familiar risk : Ukrainian women in the Polish domestic work sector
  • Appendix: Basic data on the Ukrainian women, in order of mention in book.

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