Ethiopian Women’s Migration to Yemen
This paper focuses on past and present migration of Ethiopian women to Yemen. While Yemen is predominantly seen as a sending country in terms of migration, increasing numbers of Ethiopian women have migrated to Yemen in order to take up paid employment as domestic workers since the 1990s. Although E...
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| description | This paper focuses on past and present migration of Ethiopian women to Yemen. While Yemen is predominantly seen as a sending country in terms of migration, increasing numbers of Ethiopian women have migrated to Yemen in order to take up paid employment as domestic workers since the 1990s. Although Ethiopian women already came to Yemen in the 1960s and 1970s, most of them did so with Yemeni husbands who had settled in Ethiopia. Migration scholars sometimes make a distinction between women who migrate to “follow” their husbands, and women who migrate “independently”. Based on the life stories of two Ethiopian women this distinction will be critically analyzed. While the context and conditions in which they migrated differ, there are also some continuities, in particular with regard to their employment and social status in Yemen. This paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‑depth interviews carried out in Sana’a and al‑Ḥudayda in 2003–2006. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e9cdd1416187417680d013df525440112024-02-14T09:17:17ZengCentre Français d’Archéologie et de Sciences Sociales de SanaaArabian Humanities2308-61221710.4000/cy.1853Ethiopian Women’s Migration to YemenMarina de RegtThis paper focuses on past and present migration of Ethiopian women to Yemen. While Yemen is predominantly seen as a sending country in terms of migration, increasing numbers of Ethiopian women have migrated to Yemen in order to take up paid employment as domestic workers since the 1990s. Although Ethiopian women already came to Yemen in the 1960s and 1970s, most of them did so with Yemeni husbands who had settled in Ethiopia. Migration scholars sometimes make a distinction between women who migrate to “follow” their husbands, and women who migrate “independently”. Based on the life stories of two Ethiopian women this distinction will be critically analyzed. While the context and conditions in which they migrated differ, there are also some continuities, in particular with regard to their employment and social status in Yemen. This paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‑depth interviews carried out in Sana’a and al‑Ḥudayda in 2003–2006.https://journals.openedition.org/cy/1853genderdomestic labormigrationagency |
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| title | Ethiopian Women’s Migration to Yemen |
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| title_short | Ethiopian Women’s Migration to Yemen |
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