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Empowering Migrant Women : Why Agency and Rights are not Enough.
Title:
Empowering Migrant Women : Why Agency and Rights are not Enough.
Author:
Briones, Leah, Dr.
ISBN:
9780754696674
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (251 pages)
Series:
Gender in a Global/Local World
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- PART I: Victims or Victors? Filipina Domestic Workers in Paris and Hong Kong -- 1 Capability and International Labor Migration for Domestic Work -- 2 Development: The Structural Context of Global Domestic Work Migration -- PART II: Agency and Filipina Overseas Domestic Work -- 3 Empty Agency: The Oppressed Third World Woman -- 4 Beyond Rights: Embodying and Empowering Agency -- PART III: Agency, Capability and Filipina Overseas Domestic Workers -- 5 The FODW Institution -- 6 A Capability Approach to Agency -- 7 Agency, Capability and the Migrant Domestic Worker -- PART IV: Conclusion -- 8 A Capable Agency Approach: Livelihood, Resources and Human Rights -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 Respondents' Profiles -- Appendix 2 Profiles of NGOs and Associations Contacted during Fieldwork -- Appendix 3 Typical Migration Cycle of a Migrant Worker -- Appendix 4 RESPECT-Migrant Domestic Workers Charter of Rights: Rights, Equality, Solidarity, Power, Europe, Cooperation, Today -- Appendix 5 Interview Schedule (English Version) -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Based on insights from Filipina experiences of domestic work in Paris and Hong Kong, this volume breaks through the polarized thinking and migration-centric policy action on the protection of migrant women domestic workers from abuse to link migrants' rights and victimization with livelihood, migration and development.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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