Human Rights and Migrant Domestic Work

A Comparative Analysis of the Socio-Legal Status of Filipina Migrant Domestic Workers in Canada and Hong Kong
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-14527-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 260 Seiten, Gewicht: 607 g

Reihe: The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library

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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Santos, Maria Deanna P

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;
ABSTRACT;
LIST OF TABLES;
LIST OF ACRONYMS;
PROLOGUE; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK;
CHAPTER 2. THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS RELATING TO THE SITUATION OF FILIPINA MDWS;
CHAPTER 3. INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS NORMS AND MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS;
CHAPTER 4. “GOOD ENOUGH TO WORK, GOOD ENOUGH TO STAY”? CANADA’S LIVE-IN CAREGIVER PROGRAM AND ITS QUESTIONABLE FEATURES;
CHAPTER 5. SOME ARE LESS EQUAL THAN OTHERS: THE SOCIOLEGAL STATUS OF FILIPINA MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS IN
HONG KONG;
CHAPTER 6. A COMPARATIVE SURVEY OF THE SITUATION OF FILIPINA MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS IN CANADA AND HONG KONG;
CHAPTER 7. EXPLAINING THE INTERNATIONAL AND DOMESTIC ILL-TREATMENT OF FILIPINA MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS: A TWAIL ANALYSIS;
CHAPTER 8. THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF MIGRANT DOMESTIC WORKERS: QUO VADIS?;
BIBLIOGRAPHY;
INDEX;
ANNEXES.