Experiences of Ghanaian Live-In Caregivers in the United States

This book documents the experiences of Ghanaian live-in caregivers and argues that they value care work on their own terms and not on American perceptions. The challenges of work in a different sociocultural context elicited responses from the women that challenged some long-held assumptions about immigrant women's care work.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Women, Globalization, Migration, and Work

Chapter 2: Ghana in the Global Political Economy

Chapter 3: Ghanaian Women and the International Migration Process

Chapter 4: The Chance and Choice of Live-in Caregiving

Chapter 5: The Dynamics of Live-in Caregiving

Chapter 6: Organizing Family from a Distance

Chapter 7: Live in at what Cost?

Chapter 8: Rethinking Immigrant Women's Care Work

About the author

Martha Donkor is associate professor of history and women's and gender studies at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

Summary

This book documents the experiences of Ghanaian live-in caregivers and argues that they value care work on their own terms and not on American perceptions. The challenges of work in a different sociocultural context elicited responses from the women that challenged some long-held assumptions about immigrant women’s care work.

Product details

• Authors: Martha Donkor, Donkor Martha
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781498564458
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-6445-8
• No. of pages: 162
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Ghana, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, Care of the elderly, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, Politics and government, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: women, Sociology: work & labour, Gender studies: women and girls, Sociology: work and labour