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Paid Migrant Domestic Labour, Gender Equality, and Citizenship in a Changing Europe: An Introduction

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Paid Migrant Domestic Labour in a Changing Europe

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How is migrant domestic labour impacting on the changing face of gender equality and citizenship in Europe? This chapter introduces in-depth research conducted in nine different European countries to explore paid domestic labour through the lens of two concepts central to European policy and identity making: gender equality and citizenship. It approaches gender equality and citizenship as fluid, complex, and interrelated phenomena, which are taking on a variety of forms in localised contexts across Europe. By focusing on discourses, social relations, and political processes relating to domestic labour, this chapter shows how the volume contributes to a rethinking of the vital relation between this form of employment, the formal and informal citizenship of migrant workers, and the cultural and political value of gender equality.

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    Only five European countries have ratified the Domestic Workers Convention. http://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=1000:11300:0::NO:11300:P11300_INSTRUMENT_ID:2551460

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  2. Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture and Department of Language and Literature, Centre for Gender Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway

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Gullikstad, B., Kristensen, G.K., Ringrose, P. (2016). Paid Migrant Domestic Labour, Gender Equality, and Citizenship in a Changing Europe: An Introduction. In: Gullikstad, B., Kristensen, G., Ringrose, P. (eds) Paid Migrant Domestic Labour in a Changing Europe. Citizenship, Gender and Diversity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51742-5_1

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