Black Girls - Migrant Domestic Workers and Colonial Legacies

Black Girls demonstrates the relevance of colonial legacies in the stories of the Afro-Surinamese and the Eritrean women who, in the 1960s and 70s, migrated to the Netherlands and Italy, respectively, and became domestic workers there.

About the author

Sabrina Marchetti, Ph.D (2010), Utrecht University, is currently Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. She works on issues of gender, migration and labour.

Product details

• Authors: Sabrina Marchetti
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2014
• EAN: 9789004276925
• ISBN: 978-90-04-27692-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Studies in Global Social Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories