Abstract
Women from post-socialist countries started migrating to Turkey in the second half of the 1990s to work in the domestic work sector. Migrant domestics have formed their niche as live-in caregivers, due to the disinclination of the existing local labour power to work in the care sector. Yet, the employer mothers, besides asking their live-in workers to tend their children, often demand that they also do the daily chores in the home, purposely leaving the heavy cleaning to their Turkish domestics. This way, live-in migrant domestics are promoted from the status of foreign employees to fictitious family members, to eventually embody 'the ideal housewife'.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 209-225 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | European Journal of Women's Studies |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Aug 2007 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Capacity
- Caregiver
- Domestic work
- Feminization of migration
- Housewife
- Self
- Turkey