With female migrants dominating low paid and ever-expanding domestic work worldwide, this book brings together the voices of 120 migrating women from 28 different nations and 10 different religious affiliations. Together they tell how patriarchal and religious gender codes in the family and at...

Part I. The context -- Key concepts in stepwise international labor migration -- Origin stories -- Global but uneven : the market for migrant domestic workers -- Part II. The actors -- Stepwise journeys, compared, and contrasted -- The world according to migrant domestic workers -- Inside the...

Frontmatter -- contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- A Note on Style -- Introduction -- 1 A Bounded Global Market -- 2 Disdained Aliens, Stratified Others -- 3 Jealous Madams and Anxious Mothers -- 4 Crossing Borders and Gender Divides -- 5 Cinderella with a Mobile Phone -- 6 Eat,...