Encarnación Gutiérrez-Rodríguez

Migration, Domestic Work and Affect

A Decolonial Approach on Value and the Feminization of Labor

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780415807630
• ISBN-10: 0415807638
• Artikelnr.: 35420967

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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