Ethiopian Migrant Domestic Workers: Migrant Agency and Social Change (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030240547)

This book tells the stories of the Ethiopian women who migrate to work as domestic workers in the Middle East. Drawing on qualitative research in Ethiopia, Lebanon and Kuwait, the author reveals how women's aspirations to migrate are constituted within unequal gendered structures of opportunity in Ethiopia and asks us to consider how gender, race, class and nationality intersect in the construction of migrant subjectivities and agency. By analysing the impact of migration on social reproduction both in Ethiopia and the destination countries, the book offers fresh empirical and theoretical insights into the largest stream of women's autonomous international migration from Africa.

Author: Bina Fernandez
ISBN-10: 3030240541
ISBN-13: 9783030240547
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Language: English
Published: 08/20/2019
Pages: 156
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.44d