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

• Autore: Gutierrez Rodriguez Encarnacion
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.4/8164086912094
• Soggetto topico: Women household employees - Europe; Women foreign workers - Europe; Sexual division of labor
• Soggetto geografico: Latin America Emigration and immigration; Europe Emigration and immigration
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Migration, domestic work and affect
• ISBN: 1-136-94993-3; 1-136-94994-1; 1-282-62908-5; 9786612629082; 0-203-84866-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458675703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge research in gender and society ; ; 26.