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Family Rights in a Migratory Context: Whose Family Comes First?

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Migrant Domestic Workers and Family Life

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Under the current utilitarian consideration of migration, migrants are mainly regarded as workers, relegating other basic elements of their individual lives. The utilitarian perspective implies that the migration process is solely understood under the labor market needs of the destination country, provoking a limitation of the migrant’s access to some social rights as they are not regarded as citizens. Migrant women domestic workers constitute an example of this situation, facing restrictions, particularly in relation to family rights.

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  1. Magdalena Díaz Gorfinkiel
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  1. Institut für Sozialforschung, J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Maria Kontos

  2. University of Lethbridge, Canada

    Glenda Tibe Bonifacio

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Gorfinkiel, M.D. (2015). Family Rights in a Migratory Context: Whose Family Comes First?. In: Kontos, M., Bonifacio, G.T. (eds) Migrant Domestic Workers and Family Life. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137323552_7

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