Filipino Care Workers in Israel
Title
Filipino Care Workers in Israel
Subtitle
Migration, Trans-local Livelihoods and Space
Author
Price
€ 117,00 excl. VAT
ISBN
9789463720403
Format
Hardback
Number of pages
226
Language
English
Publication date
Dimensions
15.6 x 23.4 cm
Discipline
Asian Studies
Table of Contents
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List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Between a ‘National Hero’ and a ‘Global Servant’
2. ‘Unsettled Settlers’ in South Tel Aviv
3. Flat as a Nodal Site in the Mobile Circuit
4. Networking through Weekend Rituals
5. Seeking a Shelter behind Gate
Conclusion: Creating an ‘Imagined Community’ in Displacement
Acknowledgements
Bibliography

Anna Lim

Filipino Care Workers in Israel

Migration, Trans-local Livelihoods and Space

This book traces the construction of migrant space in Israel’s urban periphery with a focus on the flat that Filipino care workers co-rent for their day-off and provides insight into the migrant lives and journeys in trans-local contexts. The author selects the flat not only as the central field site for fieldwork but also as an analytical lens for grasping the various social networks and the formation of new identities. Offering a repertoire of migrants’ own narratives, she shows how the flat, as a microcosm of societal constellations of networks, provides opportunities for all sorts of new experiences. The groundbreaking ethnography contributes to migration scholarship by opening up avenues of analysis for space, community, and boundary-making in displacement and provides comprehensive insight into the dynamics of transnational labor migration. This provocative volume will be of key interest to scholars and students of migration studies, urban studies, and more broadly to anthropology and gender studies.
Author

Anna Lim

Anna Lim is a Senior Researcher of Institute of Social Sciences at Kangwon National University, South Korea. She is an anthropologist with interests in labor migration, space, and citizenship issues. She is currently conducting research on the labor migration between the Philippines and South Korea.