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The experiences of Ghanaian live-in caregivers in the United States /
This book documents the experiences of Ghanaian live-in caregivers and argues that they value care work on their own terms and not on American perceptions. The challenges of work in a different sociocultural context elicited responses from the women that challenged some long-held assumptions about i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Women, globalization, migration, and work -- Ghana in the global political economy -- Ghanaian women and the international migration process -- The chance and choice of live-in caregiving -- The dynamics of live-in caregiving -- Organizing family from a distance -- Live in at what cost? -- Rethinking immigrant women's care work. | |
| 520 | |a This book documents the experiences of Ghanaian live-in caregivers and argues that they value care work on their own terms and not on American perceptions. The challenges of work in a different sociocultural context elicited responses from the women that challenged some long-held assumptions about immigrant women's care work. | ||
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