The new American servitude : political belonging among African immigrant home care workers /

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In our contemporary period of human mobility and global capitalism, political identifications are being configured in multiple sites beyond the nation-state. The text's theoretical innovation is to analyze what happens at work in terms of larger processes of political belonging. In particular,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coe, Cati (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Colección:Anthropologies of American medicine.
Temas:
Home care services > United States.
Caregivers > United States.
Foreign workers, African > United States.
Home Care Services
Caregivers
Soins à domicile > États-Unis.
Travailleurs étrangers africains > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Caregivers.
Foreign workers, African.
Home care services.
United States
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Interlude: Food; 1. "Anyone Who Is Not African": The Racialization of the Care Workforce; Interlude: Silences about Servants; 2. Stories of Servitude: Racial Slurs, Humiliating Insults, and the Exercise of Power; Interlude: Longing for a House; 3. Making and Breaking Practical Kinship: Affectionate Names, Social Occasions, and the End of Life; Interlude: Playing Tennis; 4. Reciprocity: Who Deserves What, and on What Grounds?; Interlude: Intangible Gifts at the End of Life
  • 5. A Lack of Reciprocity: Wages, Benefits, and Contingent EmploymentInterlude: Foreclosure; Conclusion: Recognition and Belonging through Care; Acknowledgments; Notes; References; Index; About the Author

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