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4. Migrating Women’s Working Lives, Rights and Social Protections

verfasst von : Gaye Yilmaz, Sue Ledwith

Erschienen in: Migration and Domestic Work

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In this chapter, we compare the regimes of migration and social protections provided for migrant domestic workers in the UK, Germany and Turkey. The findings here show the difficulties of the working lives of the 120 women in three cities, with a special focus on undocumented migrant women in Istanbul. However, regimes in host countries were not the sole culprit, especially in the face of patriarchal, religious and gendered codes that impacted on the women’s lives. Their narratives also show how the women were squeezed within a triangle of private agencies, employers/house owners and State funding (in the UK and Germany).

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Titel: Migrating Women’s Working Lives, Rights and Social Protections
verfasst von: Gaye Yilmaz
Sue Ledwith
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Migration and Domestic Work
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-51648-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-51649-3

Copyright-Jahr: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51649-3_4