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Black girls : migrant domestic workers and colonial legacies / by Sabrina Marchetti ; cover illustration, photograph by Gisella Sorrentino.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marchetti, Sabrina, author.
- Series:
- Studies in global migration history ; Volume 16.
- Studies in global migration history ; Volume 4.
- Studies in Global Migration History, 1874-6705 ; Volume 16
- Studies in Global Migration History ; Volume 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women household employees--Netherlands--Social conditions.
- Women household employees.
- Women household employees--Italy--Social conditions.
- Surinamese--Netherlands--Social conditions.
- Surinamese.
- Eritreans--Italy--Social conditions.
- Eritreans.
- Netherlands--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Netherlands.
- Suriname--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Suriname.
- Italy--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Italy.
- Eritrea--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Eritrea.
- Netherlands--Colonies.
- Italy--Colonies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In today’s Europe, migrant domestic workers are indispensable in supporting many households which, without their employment, would lack sufficient domestic and care labour. Black Girls collects and explores the stories of some of the first among these workers. They are the Afro-Surinamese and the Eritrean women who in the 1960's and 70's migrated to the former colonising country, the Netherlands and Italy respectively, and there became domestic and care workers. Sabrina Marchetti analyses the narratives of some of these women in order to powerfully demonstrate how the legacies of the colonial past have been, at the same time, both their tool of resistance and the reason for their subordination.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Keywords
- Differences and Similarities in History
- Colonial Acculturation and Belonging
- Paramaribo and Asmara as Culture-Contact Zones
- Postcolonial Encounters: Arriving in Italy and in the Netherlands
- A Labour Niche for Postcolonial Migrant Women
- Narratives and Practices of Work and Identity
- Ethnicisation of Care and Domestic Skills
- Racism at Work, under Colonial Legacies
- Conclusions
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-27693-9
- OCLC:
- 884273063
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