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 predominantly devout...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | EASA Series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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