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Black girls : migrant domestic workers and colonial legacies /
In today's Europe, migrant domestic workers are indispensable in supporting many households which, without their employment, would lack sufficient domestic and care labour. Black Girls collects and explores the stories of some of the first among these workers. They are the Afro-Surinamese and t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Brill,
2014.
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| Colección: | Studies in global social history ;
16. Studies in global migration history. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Keywords
- Postcoloniality
- Black Europe
- Memory and identity
- Intersectionality
- Body work
- Home
- Postcolonial cultural capital
- Differences and similarities in history
- Suriname
- Colonialism and slavery
- Independence
- Moving from Suriname to The Netherlands
- Migration and racism in The Netherlands
- Living in Rotterdam
- Afro-Surinamese women in the Dutch care sector
- Eritrea
- Eritrea's history and Italian colonialism
- Eritrea towards independence
- Eritrean migration to Italy
- Migration and racism in Italy
- Eritreans in Rome
- Eritrean women in the Italian domestic sector
- Part I. Postcolonial migrants
- Colonial acculturation and belonging
- Black Dutch
- The 'ambivalence' of bonds
- The case of school education
- Paramaribo and Asmara as culture-contact zones
- Separation and survival of domestic slavery
- A hierarchical cultural contamination
- Spatial propinquity and cultures
- Hierarchies within 'familiarity'
- The case of mass and popular culture
- Postcolonial encounters : arriving in Italy and The Netherlands
- Class and belonging 'after' the migration
- Asymmetries of recognition
- The legacy of slavery
- Part 2. Migrant domestic labour
- A labour niche for postcolonial migrant women
- Niche formation and coloniality of power
- Substitution across class and 'race'/ethnicity
- Religious figure and employment
- The 'good' job
- Agencies and 'ethnic' representations
- Narratives and practices of work and identity
- Everyday (domestic) practices and identity
- Rhythms and gestures of care
- Self-identification between care, cleaning and servitude
- Time, tasks and female models
- Time, body and enactment of power
- Ethnicisation of care and domestic skills
- 'Ethnicisation' and the right personality
- Subservience as a skill
- Familiarity with domestic work as a social position
- Reversal of hierarchiesrespect and discipline
- The case of food and cooking
- Racism at work, under colonial legacies
- Racism, ressentiment and slavery
- Home care as a 'scenario of racism'
- Spatial confinement
- Bodies : wearing inferiority
- Re-enacting colonial times
- Conclusions
- Appendix I: Notes on the fieldwork
- Appendix II: Notes on the interviewees.