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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kindler, Marta
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:	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.
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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.

A Risky Business?

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