2009
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-71832009000200017
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Maid to order in Hong Kong: stories of migrant workers

Abstract: Elisete Schwade Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte -BrasilCruzar fronteiras em busca de melhores condições de vida, em diferentes escalas e por distintos meios, é um fenômeno recorrente na atualidade.Maid to order in Hong Kong: stories of migrant workers considera um grupo específi co de trabalhadoras que buscam, por meio da migração, a melhoria das condições de vida -suas e de suas famílias. Trata-se das mulheres, especialmente fi lipinas, que cruzam as fronteiras para atuar como trabalhadoras domést… Show more

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“…They charge high fees, which often put migrants in debt and, combined with precarious and temporary employment and strict migration policies, can constrain the mobility and freedom of migrant workers, locking them into vulnerable positions and often abusive power relations (Davidson, 2013; Kemp & Raijman, 2014; Kern & Müller‐Böker, 2015; Sha, 2021a). Some scholars call this ‘immobility in mobility’ (Bélanger & Silvey, 2020), whereas others have highlighted that migrant workers often lack rights, opportunities and protection in host societies, experiencing exclusion, exploitation and downward social mobility (e.g., Anderson, 2000; Constable, 2007; Deshingkar et al., 2019; Liang, 2011; Sha & Bhuiyan, 2022). Hence, some scholars argue that intermediaries are central to an exploitative global system of temporary labour (Awumbila et al., 2019; Sha, 2021a).…”
Section: Intermediaries Cross‐border Mobility and Inequalitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They charge high fees, which often put migrants in debt and, combined with precarious and temporary employment and strict migration policies, can constrain the mobility and freedom of migrant workers, locking them into vulnerable positions and often abusive power relations (Davidson, 2013; Kemp & Raijman, 2014; Kern & Müller‐Böker, 2015; Sha, 2021a). Some scholars call this ‘immobility in mobility’ (Bélanger & Silvey, 2020), whereas others have highlighted that migrant workers often lack rights, opportunities and protection in host societies, experiencing exclusion, exploitation and downward social mobility (e.g., Anderson, 2000; Constable, 2007; Deshingkar et al., 2019; Liang, 2011; Sha & Bhuiyan, 2022). Hence, some scholars argue that intermediaries are central to an exploitative global system of temporary labour (Awumbila et al., 2019; Sha, 2021a).…”
Section: Intermediaries Cross‐border Mobility and Inequalitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Constable (2007) in her study state that there is a specific pattern that repeated in the issue of migrant workers. Migrant workers are increasing in numbers when there is a social economic problem in their original countries [12]. For example, Constable stated in her study that in the 1980s, as the economy in the Philippines worsened, there were many Filipinas, mainly between the ages of twenty and forty, with college degrees or high school diplomas, left their families to work in homes in Hong Kong and other parts of Asia and the Middle East.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The consolidation of the patriarchal sexual division of labour, postcolonial racial hierarchy, and uneven capitalist development lead to such disparity. Working-class women from the global South fill in the labour demand of care industries in the global North and prosperous areas, as for Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong (Constable 2017), Singapore (Wong 1996;Marti 2019) and Canada (Grandea and Kerr 2010;Fudge 2011); migrant women from Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and Eastern Europe working in middle-class and upper-middle-class households in Western, Northern and Southern Europe (Anderson 2004); and undocumented immigrant women working as nannies and maids in US households (Romero 2013). These women lack legal protection of their workers' rights and often face unfair treatment or even abuse and violence.…”
Section: Transnational Migration Shaped By Capitalism Colonialism And...mentioning
confidence: 99%