Human rights and migrant domestic work : a comparative analysis of the socio-legal status of Filipina migrant domestic workers in Canada and Hong Kong /
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| Author / Creator: | Santos, Maria Deanna P. |
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2005. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 243 pages). |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights library ; v. 24 Raoul Wallenberg Institute human rights library ; v. 24. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11161660 |
| Summary: | On a general level, this research project concerns ways in which the domestic and international laws relating to the situation of migrant domestic workers (MDWs) are shaped by broader socio-political and economic factors. More specifically, this dissertation examines the human rights situation of Filipina MDWs who participate in Canada s Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP). It attempts to meet these objectives, in part, by undertaking a limited comparison of the situation of these Filipina MDWs and the Filipina MDWs in Hong Kong. The comparison is meant to further test and validate the arguments and proposals presented in this dissertation regarding the socio-legal status of Filipina MDWs under Canada s LCP. This is done through an analysis of existing data on Filipina MDWs, and a consideration of the ways in which the relevant laws and policies in these two jurisdictions affect, create and/or perpetrate the status quo in this area of social life. The main explanatory theoretical framework that is deployed is the Third World Approaches to International Law (the TWAIL theory). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 243 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-212) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781429453622 1429453621 9789004145276 9004145273 9781433707643 1433707640 |