Motherhood and Women’s Migration: Evidence from Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
Jing Song,
Weiwen Lai,
Eric Fong
Abstract:Female domestic workers often take on multiple roles in different settings, such as that of mothers and migrants. This study focuses on women’s diverse trajectories in timing motherhood and migration from a temporal perspective. Despite the continuities between their paid work for their employers and unpaid care for their own families, both of which are highly feminized, migrant women often face tensions and conflicts between the two; it is difficult to be a good worker and a good mother at the same time. Draw… Show more
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