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Resistance, Regulation and Rights
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Abstract Faced with high levels of unemployment and discrimination in Poland, Polish women have made up a very large proportion of those leaving the former Communist states of central Europe, to work in EU member states. They have constituted a large undocumented ... view more
Faced with high levels of unemployment and discrimination in Poland, Polish women have made up a very large proportion of those leaving the former Communist states of central Europe, to work in EU member states. They have constituted a large undocumented migrant workforce in Europe, usually working as domestic workers and carers in the informal economy. Poland’s membership of the EU is starting to regulate Polish women’s work abroad and to increase their access to better paid and skilled work in the formal labour market. New market-led immigration policies in Europe are still selective and restricted however. What Polish women really need from the EU is help in securing a new framework of gender equality and equal treatment in Poland that offers hope for an improvement in their rights at home.... view less
Free Keywords
employment rights; Europe; gender equality; labour markets; labour migration; Polish women;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2007
Page/Pages
p. 37-50
Journal
European Journal of Women's Studies, 14 (2007) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506807072316
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)