Uprooted Women - Migrant Domestics in the Caribbean

A socio-historical and ethnographic account of pioneering Anglophone eastern Caribbean women who signed up to be migrant domestics in the Caribbean oil lands.

List of contents

Introduction
U.S. Oil Enterprises in the Caribbean
Eastern Caribbean Women: Wage Workers
Foreign Temporary Workers: Migrant Workers
Migration Decision-Making
Migration and Motherhood
Migrant Domestics on Aruba
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index

About the author

PAULA L. AYMER is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

Product details

• Authors: Paula L. Aymer, Aymer Paula L.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.07.1997
• EAN: 9780275958831
• ISBN: 978-0-275-95883-1
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Labour / income economics, Migration, immigration & emigration, Labour Economics, Migration, immigration and emigration, Gender studies: women, Sociology: work & labour, Civil rights & citizenship, Gender studies: women and girls, Sociology: work and labour, Civics and citizenship, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Caribbean Sea, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples, Geography and World Cultures: Culture