Cheap and disposable? The impact of the global economic crisis on the migration of Ethiopian women domestic workers to the Gulf

Fernandez, Bina

doi:10.1080/13552074.2010.491335

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“…Similar indings have been documented on the impact of the global crisis on workers in many countries [67][68][69]. The conundrum even more worrying is that 61% of these workers opined that they are not likely to get a job should they be retrenched due to low level of education and nonavailability of jobs.…”

Section: Hiv/aids -Contemporary Challenges 154mentioning

confidence: 64%

Economic Globalization, HIV and AIDS and Gender Dimensions in the Lesotho Textiles and Garment Industry

Tanga¹,

Bello²,

Makatjane³

et al. 2017

HIV/AIDS - Contemporary Challenges

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The Kingdom of Lesotho is also experiencing the third highest HIV and AIDS prevalence rate (23.2%) in the world, which poses an internal threat both to the industry and to the workers. The objective of this chapter was to examine workers' economic opportunities, the interplay of HIV and AIDS as well as threats to economic opportunities provided by the industry. This chapter is based on data collected for a study on the economic crisis, globalization and HIV and AIDS nexus in the textiles and garment industry in Lesotho. Data for this chapter were generated from two of the three instruments of the main study using a multistage sampling technique. Data collected were analysed quantitatively using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The result shows that despite the economic crisis, the textiles and garment industry has enhanced the employment of many Basotho (people from Lesotho), especially women. Although workers were economically empowered, HIV and AIDS and the global economic crisis were threats to the industry and workers alike. There is signiicant rural-urban migration to the industry with almost half of the workers staying away from their traditional family homes.

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Section: Hiv/aids -Contemporary Challenges 154mentioning

confidence: 64%

Economic Globalization, HIV and AIDS and Gender Dimensions in the Lesotho Textiles and Garment Industry

Tanga¹,

Bello²,

Makatjane³

et al. 2017

HIV/AIDS - Contemporary Challenges

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“…According to him, Ethiopian women are no longer interested in migrating to Yemen due to the negative stories they have heard about the economic, political, and security situation. He now recruits women from the countryside who are not aware of the situation, which underlines the importance of "experiential knowledge" and cultural capital in the recruitment of domestics (see Fernandez, 2010).…”

Section: Contract Workers Freelancers and The Yemeni Crisismentioning

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Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East

Regt

Moors²

2014

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“…It is possible that the nature and purpose of remittances from these migrants are distinct from those from other groups (Deshingkar et al, 2014;Fernandez, 2010). The second and third group of variables (migrant attributes and recipient-migrant interactions) thus attempt to account for this, at least within the scope of the FAR surveys.…”

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Saving out of Remittances: Evidence from Ethiopia and Kenya

Dendir

2017

International Migration

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This article examines the saving behaviour of remittance recipients in Ethiopia and Kenya. The few existing estimates of savings from remittances, often obtained indirectly using expenditure analysis, vary widely. The analysis presented here relies on ordinal saving categories reported in response to a direct survey question. The results reveal that the savings rate is higher in Kenya than Ethiopia, in the raw data and the multivariate model, although in both countries it rises with receipt size. Interestingly, gender is a robust predictor of differential savings, albeit with a contrasting pattern: women save more than men in Ethiopia, while the reverse is true in Kenya. In other results, a pre‐migration agreement about remittances has a strong positive effect on savings. Savings rates are also positively associated with financial inclusion in Ethiopia and formal channel flows in Kenya. Many of these results are confirmed by analysis of broader forms of saving/investment.

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Cheap and disposable? The impact of the global economic crisis on the migration of Ethiopian women domestic workers to the Gulf

Cited by 57 publications

References 4 publications

Economic Globalization, HIV and AIDS and Gender Dimensions in the Lesotho Textiles and Garment Industry

Economic Globalization, HIV and AIDS and Gender Dimensions in the Lesotho Textiles and Garment Industry

Migrant Domestic Workers in the Middle East

Saving out of Remittances: Evidence from Ethiopia and Kenya

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