TY - JOUR
T1 - International Migration, Domestic Work, and Care Work
T2 - Undocumented Latina Migrants in Israel
AU - Raijman, Rebeca
AU - Schammah-Gesser, Silvina
AU - Kemp, Adriana
PY - 2003/10
Y1 - 2003/10
N2 - This article discusses three major dilemmas embedded in women's labor migration by focusing on undocumented Latina migrants in Israel. The first is that to break the cycle of blocked mobility in their homelands, migrant women must take jobs that they would have never taken in their countries of origin, despite uncertainty about possible economic outcomes. The second dilemma is that the search for economic betterment leads Latina migrants to risk living and working illegally in the host country, forcing them to remain on the margins of society. The third dilemma relates to the role of mothers who, to secure a better future for their children, are forced to leave them behind, thus subverting the traditional definition of motherhood. The absence of an egalitarian notion and the practice of citizenship for non-Jews leave undocumented labor migrants in Israel without prospects for incorporation into the society.
AB - This article discusses three major dilemmas embedded in women's labor migration by focusing on undocumented Latina migrants in Israel. The first is that to break the cycle of blocked mobility in their homelands, migrant women must take jobs that they would have never taken in their countries of origin, despite uncertainty about possible economic outcomes. The second dilemma is that the search for economic betterment leads Latina migrants to risk living and working illegally in the host country, forcing them to remain on the margins of society. The third dilemma relates to the role of mothers who, to secure a better future for their children, are forced to leave them behind, thus subverting the traditional definition of motherhood. The absence of an egalitarian notion and the practice of citizenship for non-Jews leave undocumented labor migrants in Israel without prospects for incorporation into the society.
KW - Domestic work
KW - Globalization
KW - Labor migration
KW - Latinas
KW - Transnational motherhood
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0141707749&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0891243203255762
DO - 10.1177/0891243203255762
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AN - SCOPUS:0141707749
SN - 0891-2432
VL - 17
SP - 727
EP - 749
JO - Gender and Society
JF - Gender and Society
IS - 5
ER -