AN341 Lecture Notes - Remittance, Paternalism

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Emergence of new rich" in developing countries and middle class women in. Improve life chances of children: fewer opportunities for men therefore women are forced to go globally. Lucrative business: more in developing countries, agencies will give money to the agents if they can get workers for care work. Remittance alleviates national debts, unemployment at hone, contributes to family subsistence. Migrants are often married with children: because it reduced stigma on them. Absent wife syndrome: as soon as women leave to go to work, their marriage is not as stable, and often when they come back the husband has often found another wife. Vertical segregation: women at the bottom. Negotiating images (modesty, sexuality, lesbian)- philippian maids. Resolves contradictions between women"s space (domestic) modesty concerns, and women"s entry into public/labour space. Integration often unequal- rich an poor, center and periphery. Sex typing of work and underlying ideologies. Empowerment via work but disempowered by class and ideologies.

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