Female Ethiopian Migrant Domestic Workers: An Analysis of Migration, Return-Migration and Reintegration Experiences

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dc.contributor.advisorWeiss, Anitaen_US
dc.contributor.authorKetema, Naamien_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-17T16:12:18Z
dc.date.available2014-10-17T16:12:18Z
dc.date.issued2014-10-17
dc.description.abstractThis study explores the different effects of gendered migration focusing on migration, return migration and reintegration challenges and opportunities facing female Ethiopian migrant returnees from Middle East countries. It looks into the different stages of migration to understand some of the cultural, economic and social transformations women domestic workers experience as immigrants and laborers in the Gulf region and upon their return to Ethiopia. In doing so, the study examines the different ways women try to renegotiate and reintegrate with their families and communities. In-depth interviews with eighteen women returnees reveal the uneven distribution of experiences and outcomes of gendered migration. However, there exists some consistency in the disruptive and disempowering effect of these experiences in the destination countries that usually extend after return. Post return experiences reveal that the renegotiations of women returnees on issues of reception, economic betterment, relationship rebuilding and exercising agency with families and communities are often stressful, isolating and disempowering.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/18495
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.en_US
dc.subjectDomestic workersen_US
dc.subjectEthiopiaen_US
dc.subjectMiddle Easten_US
dc.subjectMigrationen_US
dc.subjectReintegrationen_US
dc.subjectReturn Migrationen_US
dc.titleFemale Ethiopian Migrant Domestic Workers: An Analysis of Migration, Return-Migration and Reintegration Experiencesen_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of International Studiesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregonen_US
thesis.degree.levelmastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameM.A.en_US

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