A "risky" business? : Ukrainian migrant women in Warsaw's domestic work sector / Marta Kindler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kindler, Marta, author.

Series:

IMISCOE dissertations.

IMISCOE dissertations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women foreign workers--Poland--Warsaw.

Women foreign workers.

Migration, Internal--Europe.

Migration, Internal.

Ukrainians--Poland--Warsaw.

Ukrainians.

Household employees--Poland--Warsaw.

Household employees.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is about migration as a form of risk-taking. Based on Ukrainian women's experiences in the Polish domestic work sector, it presents a new approach to analyse movements of female migrants responding to the demand for household labour around the world. Risks involved in migration and in migrant domestic work are accounted for in detail alongside an analysis of the migration decision-making processes. This study shows how social ties and migrant institutions effectively reduce the otherwise radical asymmetry of power between an individual migrant, the state and an employer. A Risky Business? brings to light the complex risk structures of migrants' activities and their sophisticated responses to them. With their innovative strategies, migrants challenge government-imposed constraints and thus reduce the risks of migration.

Contents:

Front matter

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

1. Ukrainian migrant women, migrant domestic work and risk

2. Risk, migration and migrant domestic work: Selected theory and research review

3. Theoretical approach and research methodology applied in this study

4. Ukrainian migrant women's images of risk

5. Legal risks of migration and legal risk-balancing strategies

6. Risks and risk strategies in migrant domestic work

7. Familiar risk: Ukrainian women in the Polish domestic work sector

Notes

References

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2021).

Includes bibliographical references.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0https://www.aup.nl/en/publish/open-access

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed October 02 2025)

ISBN:

9786613643933

9781280667008

1280667001

9789048514472

9048514479

OCLC:

811490854