CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Zein, Dalia Faysal |
|---|---|
| Title | Ma(i)de in the Beiruti Home Dynamics of Space and Living Relationships of Migrant Domestic Workers |
| Summary | My research focuses on the spatial (architectural and social) dynamics of the private sphere in the presence of live-in female migrant domestic workers in Beirut. The study looks at ways in which the overlapping class, race and gender discrimination that the workers face reflect first in the architecture (the design and location of the workers’ rooms) and second in the restraints imposed by living with the employer and their family. The space of the home becomes a blurred mélange of private and public as both the family and the worker impose their strategies of intimacy and invisibility, as well as control and resistance that place the worker in a constant shift between her perception by the family as ‘fictive kin’ and ‘unreliable stranger’. The research is based on ethnographic accounts drawn from participant observation with two households, volunteering at the Migrant Community Center (MCC), interviews with architects and developers as well as a visual analysis of middle- and upper-class apartment layouts. |
| Supervisor | Monterescu, Daniel ; Dafinger, Andreas |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/zein_dalia.pdf |
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