TY - BOOK AU - Paul,Anju Mary TI - Multinational maids: Stepwise migration in a global labor market SN - 9781107190894 AV - HD8716.5 .P38 2017 U1 - 331.4/81640899921 23 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge university press KW - Women foreign workers KW - Philippines KW - Indonesia KW - Women household employees KW - Foreign workers, Filipino KW - Foreign workers, Indonesian KW - Filipinos KW - Employment KW - Foreign countries KW - Indonesians KW - Emigration and immigration N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I. The context -- Key concepts in stepwise international labor migration -- Origin stories -- Global but uneven : the market for migrant domestic workers -- Part II. The actors -- Stepwise journeys, compared, and contrasted -- The world according to migrant domestic workers -- Inside the stepwise migrant's suitcase -- The agents of stepwise migration -- Part III. The aftermath -- The end of the road N2 - Multinational Maids offers an in-depth investigation into the international migrations of Filipino and Indonesian migrant domestic workers. The author taps on her rigorous study of more than 1,200 subjects' migration trajectories to reveal how these migrants work in a series of overseas countries to improve their lives and, in some cases, seek permanent residence in another country. Challenging the portrayal of Asian migrant domestic workers as victims of globalization, Multinational Maids reveals migrants' agency and strategic thinking under conditions of constraint. At the market level, the establishment of guestworker programs for migrant domestic workers in multiple countries has created a global labor market. A transnational diaspora shapes migrants' evolving destination imaginaries, while manpower recruitment and placement agencies create transnational mobility structures. In addition, differing destination hierarchies and degrees of access to resources lead to the adoption of divergent stepwise trajectories. Written in an accessible manner, Multinational Maids appeals to migration scholars, policymakers, activists, and students ER -