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

ISBN-13: 9780415807630 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011

Encarnaci[n Gutirrez Rodrguez

Opis

Domestic and care work in private households is now the largest employment sector for migrant women. This book sheds light on these households through its focus on the interpersonal relationships between Latin American "undocumented migrant" domestic workers and employers in Austria, Germany, Spain and the UK. The personal experiences of these women form the basis for Gutierrez-Rodriguez's decolonial analysis of the feminization of labor in private households and cultural analysis of domestic work as affective labor. This book will be a necessary voice in the debates on citizenship, cosmopolitanism, and migrant workers' rights.

Spis treści

Introduction:  Sensing Domestic Work  1. Decolonizing Migration Studies: On Transcultural Translation  2. Coloniality of Labor: Migration Regimes and the Latin American Diaspora in Europe  3. Governing the Household: On the Underside of Governmentality  4. Biopolitics and Value: Complicating the Feminization of Labor  5. Symbolic Power and Difference: Racializing Inequality  6. Affective Value: Ontologies of Exploitation  7. Decolonial Ethics and the Politics of Affects: Talking Rights

O autorze

Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez is Senior Lecturer in Transcultural Studies at the University of Manchester, UK.