Deskilling Migrant Women in the Global Care Industry

Informationen zum Autor SONDRA CUBAN is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University, UK Klappentext This book explores the human geographies of skilled migration, specifically the practices, dispositions, relationships, and resources of professional women who participate in the global care industry. Zusammenfassung This book explores the human geographies of skilled migration! specifically the practices! dispositions! relationships! and resources of professional women who participate in the global care industry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Professional Women Migrants Becoming Care Assistants A Homework Methodology for Migrant-Care Research A Place of Settlement and Upheaval: Carers Cruising Cumbria An Upgraded Care Industry Depends Upon Skilled Migrant Workers The Disappointing Journey to Being 'Just a Carer' Caring In Transnational Networks Conclusion: Migrant Women's Education and Expertise

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Professional Women Migrants Becoming Care Assistants A Homework Methodology for Migrant-Care Research A Place of Settlement and Upheaval: Carers Cruising Cumbria An Upgraded Care Industry Depends Upon Skilled Migrant Workers The Disappointing Journey to Being 'Just a Carer' Caring In Transnational Networks Conclusion: Migrant Women's Education and Expertise

Product details

• Authors: S Cuban, S. Cuban, Sondra Cuban, Cuban Sondra
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2013
• EAN: 9780230342330
• ISBN: 978-0-230-34233-0
• No. of pages: 259
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Women's and gender studies; Migration, B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Social Inequality, Economic Sociology, Social & ethical issues, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social welfare & social services, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Social Service, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Structure, Sociology: work & labour, Emigration and immigration, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Sociology of Work, Industrial sociology, Social Care, Human Migration