Affiliation:
1. City University of New York, Graduate Center and research assistant in sociology at Uludaı University, Turkey,
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'.
Subject
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Gender Studies
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1. Arat-Ko, Sedef (1990) `Importing Housewives: Non-Citizen Domestic Workers and the Crisis of the Domestic Sphere in Canada', pp. 81—103 in Meg Luxton , Harriet Rosenberg and Sedef Arat-Koc (eds) Through the Kitchen Window: The Politics of Home and Family. Toronto: Garamond Press .
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