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Title: | Hired as a caregiver, demanded as a housewife - Becoming a migrant domestic worker in Turkey |
Authors: | Uludağ Üniversitesi. 0000-0002-3777-788X Akalın, Ayşe H-1478-2015 57200776071 |
Keywords: | Capacity Turkey Self Caregiver Domestic work Feminization of migration Housewife |
Issue Date: | Aug-2007 |
Publisher: | Sage Publications |
Citation: | Akalın, A. (2007). "Hired as a caregiver, demanded as a housewife - Becoming a migrant domestic worker in Turkey". European Journal of Womens Studies, 14(3), 209-225. |
Abstract: | Women from post-socialist countries started migrating to Turkey in the second half of the 1990s to work in the domestic work sector. Migrant domestics have formed their niche as live-in caregivers, due to the disinclination of the existing local labour power to work in the care sector. Yet, the employer mothers, besides asking their live-in workers to tend their children, often demand that they also do the daily chores in the home, purposely leaving the heavy cleaning to their Turkish domestics. This way, live-in migrant domestics are promoted from the status of foreign employees to fictitious family members, to eventually embody 'the ideal housewife. |
URI: | https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506807079011 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1350506807079011 http://hdl.handle.net/11452/28504 |
ISSN: | 1461-7420 1350-5068 |
Appears in Collections: | Web of Science |
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