Migration and care labour : theory, policy and politics /

Across the world, the provision of care faces mounting challenges -- what has been widely referred to as a 'crisis of care'. In the global North, international migrants have increasingly supplemented the unpaid or low-paid care labour of women - as domestic workers, nannies, care assistant...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Anderson, Bridget (Sociologist) (Autor), Shutes, Isabel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Colección:Migration, diasporas and citizenship.
Temas:
Foreign workers.
Emigration and immigration.
Child care workers.
Older people > Care.
Émigration et immigration.
Travailleurs spécialisés dans le soin des enfants.
Personnes âgées > Soins.
Travailleurs étrangers.
Migration, immigration & emigration.
Sociology: work & labour.
Social welfare & social services.
Social classes.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Child care workers
Emigration and immigration
Foreign workers
Older people > Care
Internationale Migration
Pflegeberuf
Arbetsmigration.
Utländsk arbetskraft.
Society.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; Isabel Shutes and Bridget Anderson
  • PART I: THEORISING MIGRANT CARE LABOUR
  • 1. Making Connections across the Transnational Political Economy of Care; Fiona Williams
  • 2. Nation Building: Domestic Labour and Immigration Controls in the UK; Bridget Anderson
  • 3. The Construction of Migrant Domestic Workers as ''One of the Family''; Rhacel Salazar Parręas
  • PART II: THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS OF MIGRANT CARE LABOUR
  • 4. Three Domains of Migrant Domestic Care Work: The Interplay of Care, Employment and Migration Policies in Austria; Gudrun Bauer, Bettina Haidinger and August Osterle
  • 5. A Right to Care? Immigration Controls and the Care Labour of Non-Citizens; Isabel Shutes
  • 6. Resisting the Crisis at What Cost? Migrant Care Workers in Private Households; Zyab Ibez and Margarita Le̤n
  • 7. Supermaids: The Racial Branding of Global Filipino Care Labour; Anna Romina Guevarra
  • 8. Transnational Households: Migrants and Care, at Home and Abroad; Sarah van Walsum and Maybritt Jill Alpes
  • PART III: GOVERNANCE AND POLITICAL MOBILISATION ACROSS CARE, WORK AND MIGRATION
  • 9. Towards Flexibility with Security for Migrant Care Workers: A Comparative Analysis of Personal Home Care in Toronto and Los Angeles; Cynthia Cranford
  • 10. The Global Governance of Domestic Work; Guy Mundlak and Hila Shamir
  • Conclusion; Bridget Anderson and Isabel Shutes.

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