1st Edition
Sri Lankan Housemaids in Lebanon A Case of 'Symbolic Violence' and 'Everyday Forms of Resistance'
By Nayla Mourkarbel
Copyright 2009
246 Pages
by
Routledge
Unraveled in this book are the real dynamics at stake in the Madame/housemaid relationship. While cases of extreme physical abuse by the Lebanese women who hire housemaids – Madames – are an exception, what has become normalised are more insidious patterns of domination used to control each and every aspect of their employees’ lives. For their part, Sri Lankan housemaids are not merely passive... Read more
3 Introduction 2 My journey into the field 3 Gender and domestic work in migration 4 Power, resistance and racism in domestic work 5 Symbolic power 6 Resistance 7 Conclusion, Notes, References.
Biography
Nayla Moukarbel completed her PhD in Migration Studies at the University of Sussex in 2007. She has a background in sociology, having obtained a BA from the American University of Beirut and a Maîtrise from the Sorbonne University in Paris.
