A Risky Business? : Ukrainian Migrant Women in Warsaw's Domestic Work Sector.

A Risky Business? : Ukrainian Migrant Women in Warsaw's Domestic Work Sector.

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kindler, Marta
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.
Series:IMISCOE dissertations.
Subjects:
Women foreign workers > Poland > Warsaw.
Household employees > Poland > Warsaw.
Ukrainians > Poland > Warsaw.
Migration, Internal > Europe.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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