Migration and Care Labour

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Isabel Shutes, Bridget Anderson

      Pages 1-7

3. Theorizing Migrant Care Labour

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Making Connections Across the Transnational Political Economy of Care

      • Fiona Williams

      Pages 11-30

   3. Nation Building: Domestic Labour and Immigration Controls in the UK

      • Bridget Anderson

      Pages 31-48

   4. Migrant Domestic Workers as ‘One of the Family’

      • Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

      Pages 49-64

4. The Institutional Contexts of Migrant Care Labour

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65

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   2. Three Domains of Migrant Domestic Care Work: The Interplay of Care, Employment and Migration Policies in Austria

      • Gudrun Bauer, Bettina Haidinger, August Österle

      Pages 67-86

   3. A Right to Care? Immigration Controls and the Care Labour of Non-Citizens

      • Isabel Shutes

      Pages 87-109

   4. Resisting Crisis at What Cost? Migrant Care Workers in Private Households

      • Zyab Ibáñez, Margarita León

      Pages 110-129

   5. Supermaids: The Racial Branding of Global Filipino Care Labour

      • Anna Romina Guevarra

      Pages 130-150

   6. Transnational Households: Migrants and Care, at Home and Abroad

      • Sarah van Walsum, Maybritt Jill Alpes

      Pages 151-169

5. Governance and Political Mobilization across Care, Work and Migration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. Toward Flexibility with Security for Migrant Care Workers: A Comparative Analysis of Personal Home Care in Toronto and Los Angeles

      • Cynthia Cranford

      Pages 173-191

   3. The Global Governance of Domestic Work

      • Guy Mundlak, Hila Shamir

      Pages 192-212

   4. Conclusion

      • Bridget Anderson, Isabel Shutes

      Pages 213-224

6. Back Matter

   Pages 225-235

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The provision of care has been widely referred to as facing a 'crisis'. International migrants are increasingly relied upon to provide care – as domestic workers, nannies, care assistants and nurses. This international volume examines the global construction of migrant care labour and how it manifests itself in different contexts.

• care
• immigration
• Institution
• migration
• Nation
• politics
• Transnational

• Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, UK

  Bridget Anderson

• Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

  Isabel Shutes

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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