Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East [electronic resource] : The Home and the World /
Fernandez, Bina.editor.
Regt, Marina de.editor.
For over half a century, the Middle East has been major migration corridor for domestic workers from Asia and Africa. This book Illuminates the multidimensionality of these workers' lives as they engage in finding a balance between acting and being acted upon, struggle and accommodation, and movement and stasis.
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Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East: The Home and the World; Contents; CHAPTER 1: Making a Home in the World: Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East; Feminist Debates on Public-Private Boundaries; Public-Private Boundaries in the Middle East; Unhomely Worlds: Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East; Migrant Domestic Workers' Reconfigurations of "the Home" and "the World" in the Middle East; Acknowledgments; References; CHAPTER 2: Forging Intimate and Work Ties: Migrant Domestic Workers Resist in Lebanon; Introduction; Researching Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon
Sponsoring a "Sirilankiyya": Migrant Domestic Work in LebanonExclusions within the Home: "There Was a Map She Had Drawn in Her Head, Which I Was to Follow"; Exclusions outside the Home: "I Don't Have Freedom, Cannot [Be out on] Lebanese Street[s] . . . Because of [the] Color [of My Skin]"; Resisting Exclusions Outside: Church Prayers, Church Partners, and Coworkers; Rental Apartments, Migrant Coworkers, and Migrant Families; Discussion; Notes; References; CHAPTER 3: Degrees of (Un)Freedom: The Exercise of Agency by Ethiopian Migrant Domestic Workers in Kuwait and Lebanon; Introduction
Conceptualizing the Unfree Labor, Agency, and Resistance of Migrant Domestic WorkersAgency in the Domain of Employment: "Of Course You Are My Madam, but I Am Like You"; Agency in the Domain of Marriage and Relationships; Agency in the Domain of Religion: "I Depend on Angels"; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; CHAPTER 4: Immobilized Migrancy: Inflexible Citizenship and Flexible Practices among Migrants in the Gulf; Conceptualizing Multidimensional Migrants and Their Mobility; Inflexible Families; Citizens without a Home
In Lieu of a Conclusion: From Inflexible Citizenship to Connected LivesNotes; References; CHAPTER 5: The "Mama Mary" of the White City's Underside: Reflections on a Filipina Domestic Workers' Block Rosary in Tel Aviv, Israel; Introduction; Praying the Rosary and Celebrating Weekends in Abundance; Proceeding Mary through the White City's Underside; On Gendered Woes and Sacred Journeys: The Devotees and the Icon; Conclusion; Notes; References; CHAPTER 6: Creating a "New Home" Away from Home: Religious Conversions of Filipina Domestic Workers in Dubai and Doha; Introduction; Methodology
Filipina Domestic Workers in Dubai and DohaBecoming a Muslim: Fatima's Case; Creating a New Home in the Household; Becoming a Born-Again Christian: Celine's Case; Creating a New Home with Church Members; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; CHAPTER 7: Caring for the Future in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Saudi and Filipino Women Making Homes in a World of Movement; Introduction; Saudi Women Caring for Each Other across the Generations; Migrant Care Workers in Saudi Arabia; "Remember before God That She Is a Human Being"; Making Home and the Struggle for Belonging: One Woman's Story
Conclusion: Divided Futures and the State
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
For over half a century, the Middle East has been major migration corridor for domestic workers from Asia and Africa. This book Illuminates the multidimensionality of these workers' lives as they engage in finding a balance between acting and being acted upon, struggle and accommodation, and movement and stasis.
Ethnology-Middle East .
Sociology.
Ethnology.
Anthropology.
Sociology, general.
Middle Eastern Culture.
Gender Studies.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Anthropology.