Human rights and migrant domestic work : a comparative analysis of the socio-legal status of Filipina migrant domestic workers in Canada and Hong Kong / by Maria Deanna P. Santos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Santos, Maria Deanna P.

Series:

Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights library ; v. 24.

The Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights library ; v. 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers, Filipino--Legal status, laws, etc--Canada.

Foreign workers, Filipino.

Household employees--Legal status, laws, etc--Canada.

Household employees.

Human rights--Canada.

Human rights.

Foreign workers, Filipino--Legal status, laws, etc--China--Hong Kong.

Household employees--Legal status, laws, etc--China--Hong Kong.

Human rights--China--Hong Kong.

Foreign workers, Filipino--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On a general level, this research project concerns ways in which the domestic and international laws relating to the situation of migrant domestic workers (MDWs) are shaped by broader socio-political and economic factors. More specifically, this dissertation examines the human rights situation of Filipina MDWs who participate in Canada's Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP). It attempts to meet these objectives, in part, by undertaking a limited comparison of the situation of these Filipina MDWs and the Filipina MDWs in Hong Kong. The comparison is meant to further test and validate the arguments and proposals presented in this dissertation regarding the socio-legal status of Filipina MDWs under Canada's LCP. This is done through an analysis of existing data on Filipina MDWs, and a consideration of the ways in which the relevant laws and policies in these two jurisdictions affect, create and/or perpetrate the status quo in this area of social life. The main explanatory theoretical framework that is deployed is the Third World Approaches to International Law (the TWAIL theory).

Contents:

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABSTRACT

LIST OF TABLES

LIST OF ACRONYMS

PROLOGUE; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

CHAPTER 2. THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS RELATING TO THE SITUATION OF FILIPINA MDWS

CHAPTER 3. INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS NORMS AND MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS

CHAPTER 4. "GOOD ENOUGH TO WORK, GOOD ENOUGH TO STAY"? CANADA'S LIVE-IN CAREGIVER PROGRAM AND ITS QUESTIONABLE FEATURES

CHAPTER 5. SOME ARE LESS EQUAL THAN OTHERS: THE SOCIOLEGAL STATUS OF FILIPINA MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS IN

HONG KONG

CHAPTER 6. A COMPARATIVE SURVEY OF THE SITUATION OF FILIPINA MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS IN CANADA AND HONG KONG

CHAPTER 7. EXPLAINING THE INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC ILL-TREATMENT OF FILIPINA MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS: A TWAIL ANALYSIS

CHAPTER 8. THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS: QUO VADIS?

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ANNEXES.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-212) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-86851-1

9786610868513

1-4294-5362-1

90-474-0803-9

1-4337-0764-0

OCLC:

476024013

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047408031 DOI