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Au pairs' lives in global context : sisters or servants? /
"Au pairs have traditionally been thought of as middle-class young women from Northern Europe, who are having a fun gap year in a foreign country. This collection, the first dedicated to examining the lives of au pairs, reveals that this is far from the whole story. Au pairing is now a global p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Houndmills, Basingstock, Hampshire :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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| Colección: | Migration, diasporas and citizenship.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Au pairs' lives in global context : |b sisters or servants? / |c edited by Rosie Cox. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Houndmills, Basingstock, Hampshire : |b Palgrave Macmillan, |c 2015. | |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a "Au pairs have traditionally been thought of as middle-class young women from Northern Europe, who are having a fun gap year in a foreign country. This collection, the first dedicated to examining the lives of au pairs, reveals that this is far from the whole story. Au pairing is now a global phenomenon and au pairs are just as likely to come from Asia and Latin America as from Sweden or France. They are an increasingly important form of very low waged, often unregulated, childcare and domestic labour enabling tens of thousands of families to meet the demands of both work and home life. Despite the importance of the work that they do, au pairs are not recognized as workers and are often excluded from even the most basic protections, such as a minimum wage. As young migrants living inside their employers' homes they are vulnerable to exploitation and abuse"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; Part I: Au Pairs in the UK; 2 'Pink Slave' or the 'Modern Young Woman'? A History of the Au Pair in Britain; 3 'Good Families' and the Shadows of Servitude: Au Pair Gossip and Norms of Au Pair Employment; 4 When Work Doesn't Pay: Outcomes of a Deregulated Childcare Market and Au Pair Policy Vacuum in the UK; 5 Migrant Domestic Workers, the National Minimum Wage and the 'Family Worker' Concept; Part II: Au Pairs in the Nordic Countries | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 6 In a Minefield of Transnational Social Relations: Filipino Au Pairs between Moral Obligations and Personal Ambitions7 Bane and Boon; Gains and Pains; Dos and Don'ts ... Moral Economy and Female Bodies in Au Pair Migration; 8 'It's Not Much': Affective (Boundary) Work in the Au Pair Scheme; 9 Au Pairs in Norway: Experiences from an Outreach Project; Part III: The Au Pair Experience in the Rest of Europe; 10 Ethnicity and the Au Pair Experience: Latin American Au Pairs in Marseille, France; 11 Part of the Family? Experiences of Au Pairs in Ireland; Part IV: Au Pairs in the New World | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 12 Hiding in Plain Sight -- Au Pairs in Australia13 The Cosmopolitan Dilemma: Fantasy, Work and the Experiences of Mexican Au Pairs in the USA; 14 'She Doesn't Think It Will Work Out': Why Au Pairs in the USA Leave Their Host Family Early; 15 Conclusion: When is a Worker Not a Worker? Tackling the Contradictions of Au Pairing; Index | |
| 546 | |a English. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Au pairs. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Child care. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Nannies. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Personnes au pair. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Bonnes d'enfants. | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Sociology: family & relationships. |2 bicssc | |
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