Hired as a caregiver, demanded as a housewife -: Becoming a migrant domestic worker in Turkey

被引：43
作者：
Akalin, Ayse [1 ]
机构：
[1] Uludag Univ, Bursa 16059, Turkey
来源：
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WOMENS STUDIES | 2007年 / 14卷 / 03期
关键词：
capacity; caregiver; domestic work; feminization of migration; housewife; self; Turkey;
D O I：
10.1177/1350506807079011
中图分类号：
C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号：
03 ; 0303 ;
摘要：
Women from post-socialist countries started migrating to Turkey in the second half of the 1990s to work in the domestic work sector. Migrant domestics have formed their niche as live-in caregivers, due to the disinclination of the existing local labour power to work in the care sector. Yet, the employer mothers, besides asking their live-in workers to tend their children, often demand that they also do the daily chores in the home, purposely leaving the heavy cleaning to their Turkish domestics. This way, live-in migrant domestics are promoted from the status of foreign employees to fictitious family members, to eventually embody 'the ideal housewife'.
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