Description
Drawing on original empirical research from Singapore and Hong Kong, Gendered Labour, Everyday Security and Migration interrogates women migrant domestic workers' experiences of work and workplace exploitation. It examines the ways in which these women negotiate everyday security and safe work against the backdrop of affective employment relations and institutional structures of labour and migration law. It challenges the current emphasis on the language of exploitation and legal approaches to identifying, understanding and rectifying poor employment conditions for women migrant domestic workers.
This book addresses the limited research literature that examines the extent to which regulatory or criminal justice responses are relevant to, and utilised by, women migrant domestic workers in their everyday negotiation of safe work and offers a unique contribution to the field.
An accessible and compelling read, it will be of interest to researchers from across the fields of criminology, sociology, labour migration studies and women's studies.
Author: Shih Joo Tan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11/03/2022
Pages: 214
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9781032168012
ISBN10: 1032168013
BISAC Categories:
- Law | Emigration & Immigration
- Law | Gender & the Law
- Law | Labor & Employment
About the Author
Shih Joo Tan is a Postdoctoral Researcher with Monash University's Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre, Australia. Her research is interdisciplinary and focuses on gender violence, women's migration and temporary labour exploitation, and the intersections of temporary migration and family violence.
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