Multinational Maids - Anju Mary Paul

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Résumé :
Explores how global markets, middlemen and destination aspirations drive the 'stepwise migrations' of Filipino and Indonesian migrant domestic workers.

Biographie:
Anju Mary Paul is Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. She is an international migration scholar with a research focus on migration to, from and within Asia, and is especially interested in how gender, labour, race and ethnicity, as well as class, intersect at the moment of migration and the post-migration experience. Her research spans the migrations of low-wage Asian migrant domestic workers and high-skilled Asian-born, Western-trained bioscientists. She has published sole-authored articles in the American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Migration Studies, and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Sommaire:
1. Introduction; Part I. The Context: 2. Key concepts in stepwise international labor migration; 3. Origin stories; 4. Global but uneven: the market for migrant domestic workers; Part II. The Actors: 5. Stepwise journeys, compared and contrasted; 6. The world according to migrant domestic workers; 7. Inside the stepwise migrant's suitcase; 8. The agents of stepwise migration; Part III. The Aftermath: 9. The end of the road; 10. Conclusion.