Framing migrant domestic workers inside transnational businesses : a case study of Bangladeshi women travelling to Hong Kong, and their Hong Kong-based employment agencies

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501505591-007" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501505591-007</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781501505591-007" target="_blank" >10.1515/9781501505591-007</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Framing migrant domestic workers inside transnational businesses : a case study of Bangladeshi women travelling to Hong Kong, and their Hong Kong-based employment agencies

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

This is mainly an epistemological chapter. It uses the case study of Bangladeshi women in Hong Kong to speak about the stereotypical image of a female migrant worker, which is created and reproduced in the context of the migration industry, international organisations, and national governments. I argue that disregarding their actual conditions, Bangladeshi women are thought to be weak and vulnerable while in their home country but are required to become empowered once they cross the borders of their destination country. I further argue that migrant women, while being put on the pedestal of empowerment by the migration industry, find themselves between two binaries-they are either weak and unable to withstand the challenges of the new country and new employment or they become the new &apos;heroines&apos; of a predefined form of empowerment. I want to demonstrate, with the case study of Bangladeshis travelling to Hong Kong for domestic work, that seeing migrant women in these two extreme positions as a side effect risks obscuring their own decision-making process and leads to the feminisation of responsibility.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Framing migrant domestic workers inside transnational businesses : a case study of Bangladeshi women travelling to Hong Kong, and their Hong Kong-based employment agencies

Popis výsledku anglicky

This is mainly an epistemological chapter. It uses the case study of Bangladeshi women in Hong Kong to speak about the stereotypical image of a female migrant worker, which is created and reproduced in the context of the migration industry, international organisations, and national governments. I argue that disregarding their actual conditions, Bangladeshi women are thought to be weak and vulnerable while in their home country but are required to become empowered once they cross the borders of their destination country. I further argue that migrant women, while being put on the pedestal of empowerment by the migration industry, find themselves between two binaries-they are either weak and unable to withstand the challenges of the new country and new employment or they become the new &apos;heroines&apos; of a predefined form of empowerment. I want to demonstrate, with the case study of Bangladeshis travelling to Hong Kong for domestic work, that seeing migrant women in these two extreme positions as a side effect risks obscuring their own decision-making process and leads to the feminisation of responsibility.

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C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50403 - Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA17-11983S" target="_blank" >GA17-11983S: Testování “hypotézy babiček”: Transgenerační efekt na reprodukci na základě matričních dat v Čechách v 17.–19. století</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Asia and China in the Global Era

ISBN

978-1-5015-1489-0

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

135-154

Počet stran knihy

223

Název nakladatele

Berlin de Gruyter Mouton

Místo vydání

Berlín

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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