Migration and Domestic Work

Gaye Yilmaz is a scholar in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. While her academic work focuses on political economy she has also actively taken part in the struggles of vulnerable groups such as Kurds, workers, women and LGBTI. She worked for Turkish labour unions between 1996 and 2008.  She was also one of 1128 academics who signed a petition urging the government to make peace with the Kurdish people. Sue Ledwith is Emerita Scholar in International Labour and Trade Union Studies, Ruskin College, Oxford, UK. Also an activist, Sue has researched and published in the field of gender democracy and labour movements for 25 years, recently re-addressing this work as a longitudinal, international study in her PhD “Prospects for Gender Democracy in Labour Movements”.

“The voices and lives of migrant women domestic workers are the central pillar of this book. … The book will therefore be of great interest to both scholars of labour studies, and labour and women’s movement activists who want to know more about how the intersecting aspects of migrant women workers’ identities shape their lives.” (Fenella Porter, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 56 (2), June, 2018)

• Chapter 1. Migrating Women and Domestic Work: Starting Our Exploration.- Chapter 2. Women Migrating to London, Berlin, Istanbul - A Research Study.- Chapter 3. Dreams Dashed but Not Forgotten.- Chapter 4. Migrating Women's Working Lives, Rights and Social Protections.- Chapter 5. Identity, Belonging, Discrimination, Racism, Sexism and Exclusion.- Chapter 6. Gender, Family and Religion.- Chapter 7. Family and Gender, Religion and Work.- Chapter 8. Migrant Women's Collectivism: The Diaspora and Community Organising.- Chapter 9. Migrant Women, Collectivism, and Trade Unions.- Chapter 10. Prospects for Women Migrant Domestic Workers.