Migration, Domestic Work and Affect: A Decolonial Approach on Value and the Feminization of Labor (Routledge Research in Gender and Society)

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-Rodríguezʹs 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 workersʹ rights. -- Publisher description from http://www.routledge.com (Sep. 30, 2011) 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-Rodríguezʹs 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 workersʹ rights. -- Publisher description from http://www.routledge.com (Sep. 30, 2011) Introduction: Sensing Domestic Work Chapter 1. Decolonizing Migration Studies: On Transcultural Translation Chapter 2. Coloniality of Labor: Migration Regimes and the Latin American Diaspora in Europe Chapter 3. Governing the Household: On the Underside of Governmentality Chapter 4. Biopolitics and Value: Complicating the Feminization of Labor Chapter 5. Symbolic Power and Difference: Racializing Inequality Chapter 6. Affective Value: Ontologies of Exploitation Chapter 7. Decolonial Ethics and the Politics of Affects: Talking Rights Drawing upon several years of research in Germany, the UK, Spain, and Austria, and over 100 interviews with Peruvian, Ecuadorian and Chilean women working as domestic and care workers, this book examines hitherto unexplored areas of the interpersonal relationships between domestic and care workers and their employers.