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Author:   B. Anderson ,  I. Shutes
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2014
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   3.164kg
ISBN:  

9781349457441

ISBN 10:   1349457442
Pages:   235
Publication Date:   01 January 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction; Isabel Shutes and Bridget Anderson PART I: THEORISING MIGRANT CARE LABOUR 1. Making Connections across the Transnational Political Economy of Care; Fiona Williams 2. Nation Building: Domestic Labour and Immigration Controls in the UK; Bridget Anderson 3. The Construction of Migrant Domestic Workers as ''One of the Family''; Rhacel Salazar Parreñas PART II: THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS OF MIGRANT CARE LABOUR 4. Three Domains of Migrant Domestic Care Work: The Interplay of Care, Employment and Migration Policies in Austria; Gudrun Bauer, Bettina Haidinger and August Österle 5. A Right to Care? Immigration Controls and the Care Labour of Non-Citizens; Isabel Shutes 6. Resisting the Crisis at What Cost? Migrant Care Workers in Private Households; Zyab Ibáñez and Margarita León 7. Supermaids: The Racial Branding of Global Filipino Care Labour; Anna Romina Guevarra 8. Transnational Households: Migrants and Care, at Home and Abroad; Sarah van Walsum and Maybritt Jill Alpes PART III: GOVERNANCE AND POLITICAL MOBILISATION ACROSS CARE, WORK AND MIGRATION 9. Towards Flexibility with Security for Migrant Care Workers: A Comparative Analysis of Personal Home Care in Toronto and Los Angeles; Cynthia Cranford 10. The Global Governance of Domestic Work; Guy Mundlak and Hila Shamir Conclusion; Bridget Anderson and Isabel Shutes

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Maybritt Jill Alpes, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Gudrun Bauer, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Cynthia Cranford, University of Toronto, Canada Anna Romina Guevarra, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Bettina Haidinger ,Working Life Research Centre (FORBA), Austria Zyab Ibañez, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Margarita León, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Guy Mundlak, Tel Aviv University, Israel August Österle, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, University of Southern California, USA Hila Shamir,Tel Aviv University, Israel Sarah van Walsum, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Fiona Williams, University of Leeds, UK

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