Disposable domestics : immigrant women workers in the global economy / Grace Chang ; forewords by Ai-Jen Poo and Mimi Abramovitz ; afterword by Alicia Garza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chang, Grace, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women foreign workers--United States.

Women foreign workers.

Women household employees--United States.

Women household employees.

Foreign workers, Latin American.

Foreign workers, Asian.

United States.

Foreign workers, Asian--United States.

Foreign workers, Latin American--United States.

Physical Description:

xix, 234 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Second Edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket Books, [2016]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Breeding ignorance, breeding hatred

Undocumented Latinas : the new employable mother

The nanny visa : the Bracero Program revisited

Global exchange : the World Bank, "Welfare Reform," and the trade in migrant women

Immigrants and workfare workers : employable but "not employed"

Gatekeeping and housekeeping.

Notes:

First published by South End Press in 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1608465284

9781608465286

OCLC:

908071975