Migration, Domestic Work and Affect

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Domestic and care work in private households is now the largest employment sector for migrant women. This book sheds light on these households through its focus on the interpersonal relationships between Latin American “undocumented migrant” domestic workers and employers in Austria, Germany, Spain and the UK. The personal experiences of these women form the basis for Gutiérrez-Rodríguez’s decolonial analysis of the feminization of labor in private households and cultural analysis of domestic work as affective labor. This book will be a necessary voice in the debates on citizenship, cosmopolitanism, and migrant workers’ rights.

subjects: Affective Labour,  Affective Value,  Coloniality of Labour,  Feminization of Labour,  Domestic Workers' Rights,  Decolonial Ethics and Politics of Affect,  Women foreign workers,  Emigration and immigration,  Sexual division of labor,  Women household employees,  Employment,  Women immigrants

Places: Germany,  Spain,  Austria and the UK