Chapter 3 Gendered Work and Migration Regimes

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Title:	Chapter 3 Gendered Work and Migration Regimes
Author(s):	Rosie Cox
Volume:	10 Editor(s): Ragnhild Aslaug Sollund ISBN: 978-1-78052-202-9 eISBN: 978-1-78052-203-6
Citation:	Rosie Cox (2012), Chapter 3 Gendered Work and Migration Regimes, in Ragnhild Aslaug Sollund (ed.) Transnational Migration, Gender and Rights (Advances in Ecopolitics, Volume 10), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.33-52
DOI:	10.1108/S2041-806X(2012)0000010007 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Extract:	This chapter examines the relationship between the gendering of domestic work – its construction as ‘women's work’ – and the treatment within migration regimes of people who do such work. Research on paid domestic workers to date has highlighted that there are many examples of migrant domestic workers being subject to more stringent, limiting or invasive visa regulations than other migrant workers (see, e.g. Constable, 2003; Mundlak & Shamir, 2008; Pratt, 2004; Yeoh & Huang, 1999a, 1999b). Additionally, domestic workers can be excluded from employment protections, such as those that ensure minimum wages or maximum working hours for other groups (Hondagneu-Sotelo, 2001; Mundlak & Shamir, 2008; Pratt, 2004).