The mobility pathways of migrant domestic workers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3635286 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rhacel Salazar Parreñas (0000-0001-5233-3526, University of Southern California, corresponding author), Rhacel Parreñas |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 3-24 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369183x.2020.1744837 |
| OpenAlex | W3013474498 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 39 |
| References cited | 56 |
This article identifies and examines the mobility pathways of migrant domestic workers, meaning the course of action they undertake to secure continuous employment. Mobility pathways refer not only to migratory practices and processes but also concern shifts in one’s employment, legal and social status. This article examines the mobility pathways of migrant domestic workers in order to interrogate the possibilities of socio-economic mobility allowed by their migration in a stratified global labour market. Drawing from 85 in-depth interviews conducted with Filipino migrant domestic workers employed in the key destination of the United Arab Emirates, this article identifies three salient mobility pathways of serial migration, staggered migration and return migration. It revisits our understanding in migration studies of the intersections of social and spatial mobility as it first establishes the salience of multi-national migrations, thus disrupting the assumption of the continuous settlement of migrants in any one destination, and second illustrates the social reproduction of poverty for unskilled migrant workers, thus dispelling the notion that migration offers an inevitable path to socio-economic mobility
Business · Demographic economics · Developing country · Development economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Internal migration · Labor mobility · Labour economics · Migrant workers · Migration studies · Occupational mobility · Political science · Poverty · Salient · Social mobility · Sociology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Diaspora as a Catalyst in India-United Arab Emirates (UAE) Cooperation
Gender and Migration
From politics to poetics of migration
Reaching for the dream
Hotel migrant workers' identity narratives in mobility
Exploring the Nexus between Migration and Social Positions using a Mixed Methods Approach
Doing business against gendered stigma
Navigating the Belt and Road, and Beyond
Drivers and trajectories of multinational migrations of West African international students
Circular Carescapes in South Korea
Indian Diaspora in Saudi Arabia
Indian nurses in the Gulf
The dynamic of stepwise migrations of Nepalese high-skilled migrants via the Middle East
Unpacking ‘status migration
Women working holiday makers and sexual harassment in Australia
Personality Characteristics as Predictors of Temporary Labor Migration Intentions and The Moderating Role of Family Influence
Leaving for living? Factors and dynamics behind Bangladeshi female migration to the Gulf states
The drivers and trajectories of Nepalese multiple migrations to the Arab Gulf
They'd beat us with whatever is available to them’
Blurring the Boundary Between Regular and Irregular
The realities of return migration
Desiring home
The returnscape
Leaving Europe, Aspiring Access
The Grey Window of Temporary Reintegration
Affect, agency and im/mobilities
How Social Environment Shapes Pre-Death Grief Experiences in Dementia Caregiving
Fleeting joy, divergent expectations and reconfigured intimacies
Privileged pariahs
Time, (im)mobility and social reproduction
Home-bound precarity
Immobilisation of migrant domestic worker women and their children born in Lebanon
Intellectual capital and student mobility
Reimagining social protection
Participating from the ground up
Caregivers Need Care, Too
Bumps, hits and hurdles
Migration and citizenship pathways in/beyond Asia
Citizenship pathways of "new immigrants" in the later life-course in Singapore
Limits of citizenship
Pathways to Social Class
Impossible Citizens
Deported
Integration Nations
Families Apart
Servants of globalization
Cosmopolitan Sex Workers
Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship
Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East
Impossible Citizens
Caring for the 'Holy Land'
World Migration Report 2008
Walls Built on Sand
How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands
Immigrant America
Working the Boundaries
Theorizing transnational immigration
Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar, Servants of Globalization
Conceptualizing detention
Traffickers, Brokers, Employment Agents, and Social Networks
Migration Infrastructure
The Paper that you Have in Your Hand is My Freedom”
Serial Labor Migration
Exploring “Illegal” and “Irregular” Migrants' Lived Experiences of Law and State Power
Best Practice in Temporary Labour Migration for Development
Trafficking and Contract Migrant Workers in the Middle East
The New Second Generation
Settled in Mobility
Transnational domestication
Global Cinderellas
Homeward bound
Unintended Consequences of US Immigration Policy
Precarity chains
Reproducing Deportability
Introduction
Soft violence
Female Sri Lankan domestic workers in Lebanon
An Im/mobility turn
At Home but Not at Home
Migrant, interrupted
From spatial turn to mobilities turn
Methodological nationalism and beyond
Gendered Border Regimes and Displacements
Why Border Enforcement Backfired
Stepwise International Migration
Super-diversity and its implications
Mobile sociology
| Unique citing works | 39 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 38 |