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“This Time I Think I'll Try a Filipina”: Global and Local Influences on Relations Between Foreign Household Workers and Their Employers in Doha, Qatar
Author(s) -
Nagy Sharon
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1525/city.1998.10.1.83
Subject(s) - convergence (economics) , globalization , inequality , social relation , labor relations , industrial relations , everyday life , economic geography , distribution (mathematics) , sociology , demographic economics , political science , economic growth , labour economics , economics , market economy , social science , management , law , mathematical analysis , mathematics
AN EXAMINATION OF the practice of employing foreign household workers reveals how global and local relations shape social life in Doha, the capital of Qatar. The paper addresses the factors influencing changing patterns of labor recruitment, and then focuses on the reproduction of local social relations through the everyday practices of household labor. Both global and local inequalities are imprinted onto everyday practice through the asymmetrical relations of household labor. The convergence of global and local influences in domestic relations is further shown to shape the spatial distribution of social relations throughout Doha. [Globalization, labor migration, household workers, Middle East, Qatar]