Brokering Circular Labour Migration: A Mobile Ethnography of Migrant Care Workers' Journey to Switzerland

ISBN-13: 9781032238128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 190 str.

Huey Shy Chau

Opis

This book examines the commercialisation of domestic and care work through private agencies organising transnational care arrangements by brokering migrant workers.

Spis treści

List of tables and figures; Glossary; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. The black box of live-in care labour migration; 2. Paving the way to live-in care work; 3. The rise of home care agencies and packaged home care services; 4. How regulations matter for care agencies and care workers; 5. Finding a job in live-in care; 6. Recruiting care workers; 7. Matching with and travelling to the workplace; 8. Arriving at the household; 9. Care of care workers; 10. The middle space of migration and time for a care revolution; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Huey Shy Chau is Affiliated Researcher in the Economic Geography Group at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her goal as a migration scholar and economic geographer is to explore how place and space matter, and how they are shaped when people, knowledge, and social and economic practices circulate. She is driven by the motivation to understand social processes and transformation in relation to socio-economic inequality through the lens of mobilities, migration and labour. What interests her most are the sites of struggles and negotiation around workers’ and migrants’ access to resources and social participation, freedom of movement, and the value of work.