Foreigners in a foreign land : a study on expatriate families' relationships with their domestic workers
What happens when two groups of migrants, the expatriates and domestic workers, live together under a roof in a foreign land? This global market phenomenon has created a plethora of experiences among expatriates that can be attributed to their multifarious backgrounds, values, needs and social ident...
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| Format: | Final Year Project |
| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62411 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | What happens when two groups of migrants, the expatriates and domestic workers, live together under a roof in a foreign land? This global market phenomenon has created a plethora of experiences among expatriates that can be attributed to their multifarious backgrounds, values, needs and social identities. In this research, I have discovered that the relationships that are forged between these two groups of foreigners are constantly being met with the contestation of intimacy vis-à-vis the reestablishment and negotiation of professional boundaries. I explore the ways of how expatriate families navigate through their relationships with a stranger employee in their own private spaces via their lived experiences. |
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