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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791123303321

Autore

Gutierrez Rodriguez Encarnacion

Titolo

Migration, domestic work and affect : a decolonial approach on value and the feminization of labor / / Encarnacion Gutierrez-Rodriguez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-94993-3

1-136-94994-1

1-282-62908-5

9786612629082

0-203-84866-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in gender and society ; ; 26

Disciplina

331.4/8164086912094

Soggetti

Women household employees - Europe

Women foreign workers - Europe

Sexual division of labor

Latin America Emigration and immigration

Europe Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 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; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 Gutiérrez-Rodríguez'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, cosmopo