Disposable Domestics

Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy

Hardcover, 200 pages

English language

Published by South End Press.

ISBN:
978-0-89608-618-0
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OCLC Number:
43227367

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The prevailing image of migrants, particular women of color, is that of a drain on "our" resources. Grace Chang's vital account of migrant women-- frequently undocumented and disenfranchised, working as nannies, domestic workers, janitors, nursing aides, and home care workers-- proves just the opposite.

4 editions

Subjects

  • Development studies
  • Immigration & emigration
  • Labour economics
  • Racism & racial discrimination
  • Women's studies
  • Women alien labor
  • Social Science
  • Sociology
  • USA
  • Women domestics
  • Emigration & Immigration
  • Women's Studies - General
  • Social Science / Women's Studies
  • Alien labor, Asian
  • Alien labor, Latin American
  • United States