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Migrant Domestic Workers and Family Life

International Perspectives

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  • © 2015

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Editors:
  1. Maria Kontos

    1. Institut für Sozialforschung, J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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  2. Glenda Tibe Bonifacio

    1. University of Lethbridge, Canada

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Part of the book series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship (MDC)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: Domestic and Care Work of Migrant Women and the Right to Family Life

    1. Introduction: Domestic and Care Work of Migrant Women and the Right to Family Life

      • Maria Kontos, Glenda Tibe Bonifacio
      Pages 1-24
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About this book

This timely and innovative book delivers a comprehensive analysis of the non-recognition of the right to a family life of migrant live-in domestic and care workers in Argentina, Canada, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Norway, the Philippines, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, the United States of America, and Ukraine.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Sozialforschung, J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Maria Kontos

  • University of Lethbridge, Canada

    Glenda Tibe Bonifacio

About the editors

Mariya Bikova, University of Bergen, Norway Magdalena Díaz Gorfinkiel, Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Marianne Dobner, International Organization for Migration, Austria Olena Fedyuk, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom Valerie Francisco, University of Portland, United States of America Dorothee Frings, Goethe University, Germany Majda Hr enjak, Peace Institute, Slovenia Julia Lausch, University of Wyoming, United States of America Mojca Pajnik, University of Ljubljana and Peace Institute, Slovenia Amrita Pande, University of Cape Town, South Africa Elin Peterson, Stockholm University, Sweden Gabriela Poblet Denti, University of Barcelona, Spain Aranzazu Recalde, McGill University, Canada Simone Tappert, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland Seong-gee Um, University of Montreal, Canada

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