Uprooted Women Migrant Domestics in the Caribbean

Name: Uprooted Women Migrant Domestics in the Caribbean
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ISBN: 9780275958831

ISBN-10: 0275958833

ISBN-13: 9780275958831

Edition: 1997

Authors: Paula L. Aymer

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A socio-historical and ethnographic account of pioneering Anglophone eastern Caribbean women who signed up to be migrant domestics in the Caribbean oil lands. This book provides an explanation of the migration culture of the Caribbean by injecting gender into traditional labor migration theories. It views labor migration from the female migrant women's perspective as a major entrepreneurial activity for those who refuse to be fazed by foreign nation-state boundaries. Aruba, the site of a giant U.S.-owned oil refinery, became a major participant in supplying Western Europe's and North America's insatiable oil needs during the decade of the 1940s and World War II. Therefore, the island is…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 7/16/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



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