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La Ausencia (The Absence)

open access: yesJournal of Anthropological Films, 2018
Set to unravel the central yet invisible place of female domestic workers in Chilean culture, this film departs on a journey through time and space, exploring the production and reproduction of family memories through photo albums and the uses of space ...
Ricardo Greene
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Making Migrants’ Input Invisible: Intersections of Privilege and Otherness From a Multilevel Perspective

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2022
For some years, the German public has been debating the case of migrant workers receiving German benefits for children living abroad, which has been scandalised as a case of “benefit tourism.” This points to a failure to recognise a striking imbalance ...
Ewa Palenga‐Möllenbeck
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Le temps des conductrices de bus

open access: yesTemporalités, 2009
Taking off from a study we carried out with woman bus drivers, we analyze how working time and private time relate to each other. For them, as for most women, time at work and time off work cannot be completely separated.
Livia Scheller
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Housewives and Playboys: The Critique of Domestic Space in Post-World War II United States

open access: yesScienza & Politica, 2022
The text examines two critiques of the single-family home model in post-World War II North American suburbs. On the one hand, it investigates the struggles for wages for housework in order to highlight the critique of the processes of female ...
Carlotta Cossutta
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Spirituality and Domestic Violence Work

open access: yesCritical Social Work, 2005
Spirituality is increasingly recognized as an important resource for clients coping with trauma and crises. Though more limited, research on the use of spirituality by practitioners has also expanded.
Holly Bell   +2 more
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A Qualitative Study of Female Migrant Domestic Workers’ Experiences of and Responses to Work-Based Sexual Violence in Cyprus

open access: yesSexes, 2021
Domestic workers face increased risk for sexual harassment and assault in the workplace but are often reluctant to disclose abuse or seek retribution. We report on a study looking at migrant domestic workers’ responses to sexual violence, reasons behind ...
Christiana Kouta   +6 more
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Trabajo infantil doméstico en San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, México

open access: yesConfluenze, 2022
This article describes violence experienced by girls, children and adolescents who perform child domestic work in third party households in the City of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas.
Sarai Miranda Juárez
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La persistente informalidad en el trabajo doméstico en Chile

open access: yesRevue Internationale des Études du Développement, 2021
In Chile, despite a series of laws to improve working conditions for domestic workers, informal employment persists. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, this article examines why the informality of work is so persistent.
Kimberly Geronimo   +2 more
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Achieving Gender Equality through Paid and Unpaid Work: An Exploration of Mothers’ Perspectives on Work

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2023
The prevailing understanding of work as paid work is reflected in political efforts to achieve gender equality, which include emphasising that women, like men, should increasingly pursue paid work.
Sarah Madörin, Sofia Jacinto
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“I Didn’t Come Here to do Housework”: 'Relocating “Swedish” practices and ideologies in the context of the global division of labour: the case of expatriate households in Singapore'

open access: yesNordic Journal of Migration Research, 2012
On the basis of 13 in-depth interviews with Swedish women and one month of ethnographic work in the Swedish community in Singapore in 2009, this article examines how Swedish women, travelling from Sweden to Singapore as “expatriate wives” in the wake of ...
Catrin Lundström
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