A Risky Business?

by Kindler, Marta

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Title Statements

Full title :A Risky Business?.

Summary

This book is about migration as a form of risk-taking. Based on Ukrainian women's experiences in the Polish domestic work sector, it presents a new approach to analyse movements of female migrants responding to the demand for household labour around the world. Risks involved in migration and in migrant domestic work are accounted for in detail alongside an analysis of the migration decision-making processes. This study shows how social ties and migrant institutions effectively reduce the otherwise radical asymmetry of power between an individual migrant, the state and an employer. A Risky Business? brings to light the complex risk structures of migrants' activities and their sophisticated responses to them. With their innovative strategies, migrants challenge government-imposed constraints and thus reduce the risks of migration.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Amsterdam University Press
Language:und
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (222)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789089643278, 9089643273
DOI:10.26530/OAPEN_416051
oclc:on1159393321

Subjects

bestuurskunde Migration, immigration & emigration Political science politics government Public administration Sciences sociales SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigrati… Social sciences Sociologie Sociology Sociology & anthropology