Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (11 chapters)
Keywords
About this book
Reviews
“This collection is indispensable reading for anyone interested in domestic work. It offers one of the richest accounts of employer-employee relations, convincingly showing how the legal regimes as well as the everyday interactions that embody employer-employee relations advance the interests of the employer and rarely those of the employee. It challenges readers to reimagine domestic work from a rights-based perspective centered on the interests of the marginalized domestic worker.” (Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, University of Southern California, USA)
“This impressive collection on the shifting conditions of migrant au pair and domestic workers across much of Europe takes us to the front-line of the uneven and continuing battles around the gendering of inequality and citizenship today. As national welfare systems are eroded and care facilities privatized, we see how policies addressing paid domestic workers, and issues of care more generally, are intrinsic to ongoing debates over power, gender and citizenship. An essential book for our times.” (Lynne Segal, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)
“By using an intersectional analysis this excellent compilation of articles brings to light central dilemmas of the commercialization of care in Europe. The book makes visible the relaunch of neocolonial practices, like servitude, in the private household and calls into question the achievements of gender equality politics. A must read for gender studies scholars and students.” (Helma Lutz, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Guro Korsnes Kristensen is Researcher at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.
Priscilla Ringrose is Professor of Gender Studies and French Literature at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture and The Department of Language and Literature, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Paid Migrant Domestic Labour in a Changing Europe
Book Subtitle: Questions of Gender Equality and Citizenship
Editors: Berit Gullikstad, Guro Korsnes Kristensen, Priscilla Ringrose
Series Title: Citizenship, Gender and Diversity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51742-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70400-2Published: 26 August 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-51742-5Published: 13 July 2016
Series ISSN: 2947-8081
Series E-ISSN: 2947-809X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 266
Topics: Sociology, general, Migration, Gender Studies, Political Science, Social Structure, Social Inequality