Caring for the 'Holy Land' : Filipina domestic workers in Israel

Caring for the 'Holy Land' : Filipina domestic workers in Israel / Claudia Liebelt.

In Israel, as in numerous countries of the global North, Filipina women have been recruited in large numbers for domestic work, typically as live-in caregivers for the elderly. The case of Israel is unique in that the country has a special significance as the 'Holy Land' for the predominan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liebelt, Claudia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
Series:EASA series ; v. 17.
Subjects:
Household employees > Israel.
Women foreign workers > Israel.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Emigration and immigration
Household employees
Women foreign workers
Israel > Emigration and immigration.
Philippines > Emigration and immigration.
Israel
Philippines
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Table of Contents:
  • CARING FOR THE 'HOLY LAND'; EASA Series; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Israeli Migration Regime: On Foreign Workers and Migrants; Chapter 2. Transnational Female Lives; Chapter 3. Caring for the 'Holy Land'; Chapter 4. On Weekends, Together: The Making and Unmaking of a Filipino Community; Chapter 5. Feeling Manila, Living in Hiding and Appropriating the Black Part of the 'White City': Filipinos in Tel Aviv; Chapter 6. Global Dreaming; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.

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