Mobilités domestiques internationales et nouvelles territorialités à Beyrouth (Liban)
Since the end of the 1970s, Lebanon has become a country of immigration for female migrants coming from the Asian sub-continent, Southeast Asia, East and West Africa. Today it is estimated that about 250,000 people migrants work for the most part as householders in the homes of middle and upper clas...
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| Language: | English |
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Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille
2010-12-01
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| Series: | Espace populations sociétés |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/eps/4154 |
| Summary: | Since the end of the 1970s, Lebanon has become a country of immigration for female migrants coming from the Asian sub-continent, Southeast Asia, East and West Africa. Today it is estimated that about 250,000 people migrants work for the most part as householders in the homes of middle and upper class Lebanese families. This economic migration between southern countries is linked to a legislation that is supposed to restrict foreign women to domesticity and spatial and social invisibility. Based on a case study which focuses on the migration of Ethiopian women, we show how immigrants are disappearing from domestic space and moving into the city. Nevertheless they also contribute, through the interstices of the city and its temporalities, to a reformulation of the Beirut urban landscape. The migration situation in the context of contemporary globalization raises questions about the concept of cosmopolitanism and the place of otherness in a Mediterranean and Arab city like Beirut. |
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| ISSN: | 0755-7809 2104-3752 |