[en] This lecture provided students with a general overview of the migration trends from Latin America to Europe in the last decade, highlighting the two main characteristics that have accompanied such flows meaning: the feminization of migratory paths and the creation of transnational families. It addressed the following questions: How and through which practices have Latin American female migrant domestic workers manage to do transnational families? What has been the impact of such ways of doing family for sending and receiving societies?
Research Center/Unit :
Centre d'Études de l'Ethnicité et des Migrations - CEDEM
Disciplines :
Sociology & social sciences
Author, co-author :
Vivas Romero, Maria ; Université de Liège > Institut des sciences humaines et sociales > Centre d'études de l'ethnicité et des migrations (CEDEM)
Language :
English
Title :
Guest Lecture: Family in the Age of Migration, Globalisation and Mobility: The Case of Latin American Domestic Workers in Europe
Publication date :
18 November 2014
Institution :
ULiège - Université de Liège
Name of the research project :
Who Cares for those who Cared? An Intersectional ethnography of migrant domestic workers' negotiations for social protection.
