TY - JOUR
T1 - Serial Labor Migration
T2 - Precarity and Itinerancy among Filipino and Indonesian Domestic Workers
AU - Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar
AU - Silvey, Rachel
AU - Hwang, Maria Cecilia
AU - Choi, Carolyn Areum
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Funded by National Science Foundation (SES - 1346750), “Comparative Analysis of Labor Relations and Legal Status in the United Arab Emirates and Singapore.” The authors also thank the Social Science Research Council of Canada “Gender, Migration and the Work of Care” Grant #895-2012-102, and PI Ito Peng for support of the “Sending Country Perspectives” research reflected in this article.
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© The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2019/12/1
Y1 - 2019/12/1
N2 - This article examines the mobility patterns of migrant domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates. It identifies and explains the emergence of serial labor migration, which we define as the multi-country, itinerant labor migration patterns of temporary low-skilled migrant workers. It argues that policy contexts shaping temporary labor migration, as they impose precarious and prohibitive conditions of settlement in both countries of origin and destination, produce the itinerancy of low-skilled migrant workers. We offer a holistic analysis of the migration process of temporary labor migrants, shifting away from a singular focus on the process of emigration, integration, or return and toward an examination of each stage as a co-constitutive step in the migration cycle. Our analytic approach enables us to illustrate the state of precarity and itinerancy that follows low-wage migrant workers across the various stages of the migration cycle and produces serial migration patterns among migrant domestic workers from the Philippines and Indonesia.
AB - This article examines the mobility patterns of migrant domestic workers in the United Arab Emirates. It identifies and explains the emergence of serial labor migration, which we define as the multi-country, itinerant labor migration patterns of temporary low-skilled migrant workers. It argues that policy contexts shaping temporary labor migration, as they impose precarious and prohibitive conditions of settlement in both countries of origin and destination, produce the itinerancy of low-skilled migrant workers. We offer a holistic analysis of the migration process of temporary labor migrants, shifting away from a singular focus on the process of emigration, integration, or return and toward an examination of each stage as a co-constitutive step in the migration cycle. Our analytic approach enables us to illustrate the state of precarity and itinerancy that follows low-wage migrant workers across the various stages of the migration cycle and produces serial migration patterns among migrant domestic workers from the Philippines and Indonesia.
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U2 - 10.1177/0197918318804769
DO - 10.1177/0197918318804769
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85059887771
SN - 0197-9183
VL - 53
SP - 1230
EP - 1258
JO - International Migration Review
JF - International Migration Review
IS - 4
ER -