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Zusatztext The insights from Helma Lutz's rich ethnographic research bring a new dimension to the growing literature on women, migration and care work. In this brilliant synthesis, Lutz shows how the household becomes a 'global market for women's labour,' one in which active players 'do ethnicity' as they negotiate care and domestic work. While the focus is on Europe, The New Maids adds to our understanding of transnational women across the globe. As she did with Migration and Domestic Work, Lutz once again raises scholarship on women, migration and work to a new level. Informationen zum Autor Helma Lutz is professor of women and gender studies in the Department of Social Sciences at Goethe University, Germany. She is an associate editor of the European Journal of Women's Studies. Klappentext The New Maids is a pioneering book, grounded on rich, empirical evidence, which examines the relationship between globalization, transnationalism, gender and the care economy. Expertly addressing the thorny questions that surround the increasing number of migrant domestic workers and cleaners, child-carers and caregivers who maintain modern Western households, the author argues that domestic work plays the defining role in global ethnic and gender hierarchies. Using a central ethnographic study of immigrant domestic workers and their German employees as its starting point, The New Maids uses the voices of such women themselves to provide unique conceptual and evidential support for this vital new approach argument. This exciting book will not only enhance the reader's understanding of the new care-economy, it also sets standards for feminist global methodology. Vorwort The author argues that domestic work plays the defining role in global ethnic and gender hierarchies. Zusammenfassung The author argues that domestic work plays the defining role in global ethnic and gender hierarchies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: The New Division of Domestic Labour 2: The Household as a Global Market for Women's Labour 3: Domestic Work and Lifestyles: Methods and First Results 4: Domestic Work - A Perfectly Normal Job? 5: Exploitation or Alliance of Trust? Relationship Work in the Household 6: Transnational Motherhood 7: Being Illegal 8: Migrant Women in the Globalization Trap?...
