Hired to be daughters: domestic service among ordinary Moroccans

Thesis

This thesis explores why shaʿbī (roughly, ‘ordinary’) Moroccans so often talk about their domestic workers as daughters, what this means for workers and employers, and how this is changing as community gives way to market. It brings together ethnographic study of urban shaʿbī society, of unmarried rural women who work as domestics, and of the communities from which the latter migrate.

Drawing on anthropological discussions of kinship and fosterage, the thesis exami...

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Authors: Montgomery, M

• Publication date: 2015
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: kinship; women workers; servants; labour; rural-urban migration; gender; Morocco; Domestic service; domestic workers
• Subjects: Social anthropology; Anthropology