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Doing the Dirty Work?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

Doing the Dirty Work?

There has been a tendency amongst feminists to see domestic work as the great leveller, a common burden imposed on all women equally by patriarchy. This unique study of migrant domestic workers in the North uncovers some uncomfortable facts about the race and class aspects of domestic oppression. Based on original research, it looks at the racialisation of paid domestic labour in the North - a phenomenon which challenges feminsim and political theory at a fundamental level. The book opens with an exploration of the public/private divide and an overview of the debates on women and power. The author goes on to provide a map of employment patterns of migrant women in domestic work in the North;...

Us and Them?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

Us and Them?

  • Categories: Law

Us and Them? explores the distinction between migrant and citizen through using the concept of 'the community of value'. The challenges of migration go to the heart of equality, rights, freedom, and membership. These are not only matters for migrants but go to the heart of citizens' politics.

Citizenship and its Others
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

Citizenship and its Others

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-11-02
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  • Publisher: Springer

This edited volume analyzes citizenship through attention to its Others, revealing the partiality of citizenship's inclusion and claims to equality by defining it as legal status, political belonging and membership rights. Established and emerging scholars explore the exclusion of migrants, welfare claimants, women, children and others.

Migration and Care Labour
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

Migration and Care Labour

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-03-18
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  • Publisher: Springer

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.

Us and Them?
  • Language: en

Us and Them?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Unknown

'Us and Them?' explores the distinction between migrant and citizen through using the concept of 'the community of value'. The challenges of migration go to the heart of equality, rights freedom, and membership. These are not only matters for migrants but go to the heart of citizens' politics

Britain's Secret Slaves
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 128

Britain's Secret Slaves

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Text in Home Office leaflet, 1991

Who Needs Migrant Workers?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Who Needs Migrant Workers?

This book discusses the demand for migrant labour both conceptually and empirically with a focus on the UK.

Something About You (Coleman House, Book 3)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Something About You (Coleman House, Book 3)

Love finds a way

Does Skill Make Us Human?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Does Skill Make Us Human?

Regulation : how the politics of skill become law -- Production : how skill makes cities -- Skill : how skill is embodied and what it means for the control of bodies -- Protest : how skillful practice becomes resistance -- Body : how definitions of skill cause injury -- Earth : how the politics of skill shape responses to climate change.

Within and Beyond Citizenship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 189

Within and Beyond Citizenship

  • Categories: Law

Within and Beyond Citizenship brings together cutting-edge research in sociology and social anthropology on the relationship between legal status, rights and belonging in contemporary societies of immigration, to offer a daring new perspective on these questions. It offers new insights into the ways in which political membership is experienced, spatially and bureaucratically constructed, and actively negotiated and contested in the everyday lives of citizens and non-citizens.