Tan, Shih Joo.

Gendered labour, everyday security and migration : an examination of domestic work and domestic workers' experiences in Singapore and Hong Kong / Shih Joo Tan. - Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. - 1 online resource

Drawing on original empirical research from Singapore and Hong Kong, Gendered Labour, Everyday Security and Migration interrogates women migrant domestic workers' experiences of work and workplace exploitation. It examines the ways in which these women negotiate everyday security and safe work against the backdrop of affective employment relations and institutional structures of labour and migration law. It challenges the current emphasis on the language of exploitation and legal approaches to identifying, understanding and rectifying poor employment conditions for women migrant domestic workers. This book addresses the limited research literature that examines the extent to which regulatory or criminal justice responses are relevant to, and utilised by, women migrant domestic workers in their everyday negotiation of safe work and offers a unique contribution to the field. An accessible and compelling read, it will be of interest to researchers from across the fields of criminology, sociology, labour migration studies and women's studies.

9781000772609 1000772608 9781003250364 100325036X 9781000772647 1000772640

10.4324/9781003250364 doi


LAW / Emigration & Immigration
LAW / Gender & the Law
LAW / Labor & Employment
Women household employees--Singapore.
Women household employees--China--Hong Kong.
Women foreign workers--Singapore.
Women foreign workers--China--Hong Kong.

HD6072.2.S55 / T36 2023eb

331.4/8164095957