Migration, Domestic Work and Affect: A Decolonial Approach on Value and the Feminization of Labor

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ISBN: 9780415994736 | 041599473X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 4/30/2010

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Drawing upon several years of research in Germany, the UK, Spain, and Austria, and over 100 interviews with Peruvian, Ecuadorian and Chilean women working as domestic and care workers, this book examines hitherto unexplored areas of the interpersonal relationships between domestic and care workers and their employers.

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Introduction: Speaking the language of economy in unfamiliar ways
On the hidden side of the global economy: Domestic / care work and transnational migration
Cultural Translation and Reading the Social: On the Limits of Representation
Trabajo de Cuidados and Biopolitics
Affect and Affective Labour: Tracing Sensations
Difference and Value: Intimacy and the (im)materiality of work
Culture at Work: Transculturation and the logic of capitalism
Challenging Cosmopolitanism G++ Talking Rights
Conclusion: Transculturalising Affect
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Migration, Domestic Work and Affect: A Decolonial Approach on Value and the Feminization of Labor

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