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Title:
Market for Migrant Domestic and Sex Workers, 2002-2006

Subject Categories:
Social attitudes and behaviour - Society and culture
Equality and inequality - Social stratification and groupings
Ethnic minorities - Social stratification and groupings
Gender roles - Social stratification and groupings

Depositor(s):
O'Connell Davidson, J., University of Nottingham. School of Sociology and Social Policy

Principal Investigator(s):
O'Connell Davidson, J., University of Nottingham. School of Sociology and Social Policy
Anderson, B., University of Oxford. COMPAS (Centre on Migration, Policy and Society)

Sponsor(s):
Economic and Social Research Council

Grant Number:
R000239794

Other Acknowledgements:
Interviewers: James Mannion and Jennifer Sano

Abstract:
This is a mixed-methods dataset.

The study explored attitudes towards, and experience of, the markets for migrant domestic and sex workers in the UK and Spain through a combination of interview and survey research. The interviews were structured around a standard set of topics, and examined respondents' attitudes towards gender, race/ethnicity, age, and domestic work/commercial sex. It aimed to examine continuities and discontinuities between domestic work and sex work, paying particular attention to the role of the social/cultural imagination in constructing a market for migrant workers and questions about how this demand relates to broader socially tolerated attitudes towards race, gender, age and sexuality, and to make a contribution to current theorizing on gender, nationality, global interdependence, age, racial/ethnic identities and the complex intersections among these systems.
Main Topics:
Reasons for employing domestic workers; attitudes towards employment relations with domestic workers Experience of commercial sex; attitudes towards gender and sexuality; attitudes towards/beliefs about migrant sex workers

Coverage:
Time Period Covered: 2002-2005
Dates of Fieldwork: September 2002-June 2006
Country: Czech Republic; Hong Kong; Spain; Thailand; United Kingdom
Geography: London; Bangkok; Barcelona; Prague; Madrid; Tenerife
Spatial Units: No spatial unit
Observation Units: Individuals
Kind of Data: Textual data; Numeric data

Universe Sampled:
Location of Units of Observation:Cross-national
Population:Interviewees - People with experience of buying commercial sexual services; control sample; employers of migrant domestic workers; control sample surveys: employers of domestic workers; students; tourists

Methodology:
Time Dimensions: Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Sampling Procedures: Convenience sample
Number of Units: 446 (quantitative); 68 (qualitative)
Method of Data Collection: Face-to-face interview; Telephone interview; Self-completion
Weighting: No weighting used

Language(s) of Written Materials:
Study Description: English
Study Documentation: English

Access:
Access Conditions: The depositor has specified that registration is required and standard conditions of use apply. The depositor may be informed about usage. See terms and conditions for further information.
Availability: ESDS Qualidata, UK Data Archive
Contact: Help desk: qualidata@esds.ac.uk

Date of Release:
First Edition: 3 April 2009

Copyright:
Copyright J. O'Connell Davidson and B. Anderson.

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