Aid and the Help: International Development and the Transnational Extraction of Care (Globalization in Everyday Life)

"Hiring domestic workers is a routine part of the expat development lifestyle. Whether working for the United Nations, governmental aid agencies, or NGOs such as Oxfam, Save the Children, or World Vision, expatriate aid workers in the developing world employ maids, nannies, security guards, gardeners and chauffeurs. Though nearly every expat aid worker in the developing world has local people working within the intimate sphere of their homes, these relationships are seldom, if ever, discussed in analyses of the development paradigm and its praxis. Aid and the Help addresses this major lacuna through an ethnographic analysis of the intersection of development work and domestic work. Examining the reproductive labor cheaply purchased by aid workers posted overseas opens the opportunity to assess the multiple ways that the ostensibly "giving" industry of development can be an extractive industry as well"-- Provided by publisher Contents 7 Acknowledgments 9 INTRODUCTION: AID WORK AND THE EXTRACTION OF CARE 15 1 FINDING HELP IN THE INFORMAL ECONOMY 43 2 SECURITY AND EVERYDAY BORDERING 80 3 STRATIGRAPHIES OF MOBILITY 112 4 INEQUALITIES OF THE WORLD PERSONIFIED 139 CONCLUSION 167 Notes 175 Bibliography 187 Index 209