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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1. Verfasser: Kindler, Marta
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2012.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.