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Ethiopian Migrant Domestic Workers

Migrant Agency and Social Change

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  • Draws on field research conducted in both the origin country (Ethiopia) and two major destination countries (Lebanon and Kuwait)
  • Examines the important implications behind Ethiopian women's sacrifices that affect the complex layers of family and community social reproduction
  • Analyses the agency of migrant domestic workers, in contrast to other literature that tends to focus on their experiences of abuse and mistreatment by employers

Part of the book series: Mobility & Politics (MPP)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. The Will to Change

    • Bina Fernandez
    Pages 1-24
  3. On the ‘Cutting Edge of Change’

    • Bina Fernandez
    Pages 129-145
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 147-156

About this book

This book tells the stories of the Ethiopian women who migrate to work as domestic workers in the Middle East. Drawing on qualitative research in Ethiopia, Lebanon and Kuwait, the author reveals how women’s aspirations to migrate are constituted within unequal gendered structures of opportunity in Ethiopia and asks us to consider how gender, race, class and nationality intersect in the construction of migrant subjectivities and agency. By analysing the impact of migration on social reproduction both in Ethiopia and the destination countries, the book offers fresh empirical and theoretical insights into the largest stream of women’s autonomous international migration from Africa.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

    Bina Fernandez

About the author

Bina Fernandez is Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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