When Care Work Goes Global

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Contents: Preface Care work in a globalizing world, Mary Romero, Valerie Preston and Wenona Giles. Part I Situating the International Movement of Domestic and Care Workers: Social Reproduction and Globalization: a Value plus plusa (TM): housewifization and history in Philippine care migration, Pauline Gardiner Barber and Catherine Bryan Refugee women doing paid domestic work in Rome: disempowering structures of settlement and the question of agency, Maja Korac Care workers and welfare: foreign migrant women in Italy, Laura Stefanelli The magic of migration, immigration controls and subjectivities: the case of au pairs and domestic worker visa holders, Bridget Anderson The use and abuse of domestic workers: case studies in Lebanon and Egypt, Ray Jureidini. Part II International Domestic Work and the Family: Remaking Femininity and Motherhood Unravelling privilege: workers' children and the hidden costs of paid child care, Mary Romero Domestic disturbances: immigrant workers, middle-class employers, and the American Dream in Los Angeles, Susanna Rosenbaum Family separation and reunification among former Filipina migrant domestic workers and their adult daughters in two Canadian cities, Conely de Leon. Part III Emotional Labour and Intimate Care Work: On the road and on their own: autonomy and giving in home health care in Quebec, Deirdre Meintel, Sylvie Fortin and Marguerite Cognet A politics of intimacy: citizenship rights, emotion and the making of Israeli children, Maya Shapiro. Part IV Questions of Regulation and Protection: Toward particularism with security: immigration, race and the organization of personal support services in Los Angeles, Cynthia J. Cranford Global care chains: transnational migrant care workers, Judy Fudge Organizing through state transitions and global institutions: crafting domestic labour policy in South Africa, Jennifer N. Fish. Bibliography Index.