UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: MIGRANT WOMEN IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES The case of female domestic workers by Rima Sabban Gender Promotion Programme International Labour Office Geneva http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/gems/download/swmuae.pdf
Lire la suiteMigrant Women June 2003 By Ana Elena Obando, WHRnet Overview Although there are many reasons why women work abroad (war and economic, social and political situations, etc.), labor migration is directly related to the global economic and political model...
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Servants of Globalization Women, Migration, and Domestic Work Rhacel Salazar Parreñas Servants of Globalization is a poignant and often troubling study of migrant Filipina domestic workers who leave their own families behind to do the mothering and caretaking...
Lire la suiteNoborder Network, 2002 18.Aug.02 - Women-, children-, and human trafficking - no one can deny that scrupulous businessmen force women, who are willing to migrate, into prostitution with false promises. Women’s organisations and anti-racist initiatives...
Lire la suiteA domestic worker, domestic, or servant is one who works within the employer's household. Servants are distinguishable from serfs or slaves in that they are compensated, that is, they must receive payment (and, following labour reforms in the 20th Century,...
Lire la suiteShireen Ally University of the Witwatersrand , Introduction Over the past decade, studies of globalisation have insightfully exposed the global re-organisation of production. But much less has been said about it’s “intimate ‘Other’ ”, the global re-organisation...
Lire la suiteAmnesty International, 2005 Stripped of their rights and denied adequate legal recourse, women domestic workers in many Gulf states are often discriminated against, exploited, even abandoned in their host countries “I confessed before the police because...
Lire la suiteThe Chairman of the Foreign Employment Bureau was quoted saying that the Government hopes to evacuate 2600 Sri Lankan workers registered with the Sri Lanka embassy in Beirut. Only one casualty has been reported up to now out of the 80,000 workers involved.three...
Lire la suiteAntislavery International, 2005 Lebanon is a destination country for trafficked women for domestic work from Asian and African countries. Various reports also mention women trafficked for sexual purposes, mainly from Eastern Europe . The country is to...
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