Title:
Disposable domestics : immigrant women workers in the global economy / Grace Chang ; forewords by Ai-Jen Poo and Mimi Abramovitz ; afterword by Alicia Garza.
Author:
Chang, Grace, 1964- author.
Publication Information:
Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket Books, [2016]
©2016.
Call Number:
HD6095 .C48 2016
Abstract:
The prevailing image of migrants, particular women of color, is that of a drain on "our" resources. Grace Chang's vital account of migrant women-- frequently undocumented and disenfranchised, working as nannies, domestic workers, janitors, nursing aides, and home care workers-- proves just the opposite.
Edition:
Second Edition.
ISBN:
9781608465286
Physical Description:
xxix, 234 pages ; 23 cm
General Note:
First published by South End Press in 2000.
Contents:
Introduction -- Breeding ignorance, breeding hatred -- Undocumented Latinas : the new employable mother -- The nanny visa : the Bracero Program revisited -- Global exchange : the World Bank, "Welfare Reform," and the trade in migrant women -- Immigrants and workfare workers : employable but "not employed" -- Gatekeeping and housekeeping.
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