This book is about migration as a form of risk-taking. Based on Ukrainian women's experiences in the Polish domestic work sector, it presents a new approach to analyse movements of female migrants responding to the demand for household labour around the world. Risks involved in migration and in...

Are immigrants more enterprising than natives in Spain? How successful are migrant entrepreneurs compared to those who start businesses in their country of birth? How does foreignness affect an immigrant's ability to launch and to grow a successful business? This book explores the economic and...

Are immigrants more enterprising than natives in Spain? How successful are migrant entrepreneurs compared to those who start businesses in their country of birth? With the growth of migration worldwide, questions such as these are garnering the attention of economists, policymakers and scholars....

This book examines two major social changes experienced by European cities in the last two decades: post-industrial economic restructuring and new immigration flows. The link between both has been extensively discussed throughout a variety of theoretical approaches and in numerous descriptive...

Intro -- Table of contents -- 1 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.

Intro -- Summary of thesis -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- List of figures -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Locating our case in a world of change -- 3: Methodology and analytical framework -- 4: Structure, patterns and dynamics of migration -- 5:...