Full Description
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.
Contents
1. The Will to Change.- 2. 'We are like oil to our government'.- 3. (De)constructing docility at the destinations.- 4. 'We Ethiopians are more sociable people - we cannot live alone'.- 5. 'Now we welcome the birth of daughters'.- 6. On the 'Cutting Edge of Change'.
