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Curington, Celeste Vaughan

 
9781978827967: Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal
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ISBN 10 : 1978827962 ISBN 13 : 9781978827967
Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Winner of the ASA Race, Gender, and Class section's Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award

Winner of the ASA Racial and Ethnic Minorities section's Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award

Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal examines the everyday lives of an African-descendant care service workforce that labors in an ostensibly "anti-racial" Europe and against the backdrop of the Portuguese colonial empire. While much of the literature on global care work has focused on Asian and Latine migrant care workers, there is comparatively less research that explicitly examines African care workers and their migration histories to Europe. Sociologist Celeste Vaughan Curington focuses on Portugal--a European setting with comparatively liberal policies around family settlement and naturalization for migrants. In this setting, rapid urbanization in the late twentieth century, along with a national push to reconcile work and family, has shaped the growth of paid home care and cleaning service industries. Many researchers focus on informal work settings, where immigrant rights are restricted and many workers are undocumented or without permanent residence status. Curington instead examines workers who have accessed citizenship or permanent residence status and also explores African women's experiences laboring in care and service industries in the formal market, revealing how deeply colonial and intersectional logics of a racialized and international division of reproductive labor in Portugal render these women "hyper-invisible" and "hyper-visible" as "appropriate" workers in Lisbon.

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À propos de l'auteur

CELESTE VAUGHAN CURINGTON is an assistant professor of sociology at Boston University. She is the coauthor of The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance.

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Éditeur
Rutgers University Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1978827962
ISBN 13 
9781978827967
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
236
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