Black girls : migrant domestic workers and colonial legacies /
Marchetti, Sabrina.
Black girls : migrant domestic workers and colonial legacies / by Sabrina Marchetti. - 1 online resource (xiii, 200 pages) - Studies in Global Social History ; v. 16 Studies in Global Migration History ; v. 4 . - Studies in Global Social History 16/4. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287488. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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 1960s and 70s 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.
9789004276932
10.1163/9789004276932 DOI
2014014320
Women household employees--Social conditions.--Netherlands
Women household employees--Social conditions.--Italy
Women, Black--Employment.
Blacks--Employment.
Surinamese--Social conditions.--Netherlands
Eritreans--Social conditions.--Italy
Netherlands--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Suriname--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Italy--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Eritrea--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Netherlands--Colonies.
Italy--Colonies.
HD6072.2.N4 / M37 2014
331.4086/91
Black girls : migrant domestic workers and colonial legacies / by Sabrina Marchetti. - 1 online resource (xiii, 200 pages) - Studies in Global Social History ; v. 16 Studies in Global Migration History ; v. 4 . - Studies in Global Social History 16/4. Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287488. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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 1960s and 70s 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.
9789004276932
10.1163/9789004276932 DOI
2014014320
Women household employees--Social conditions.--Netherlands
Women household employees--Social conditions.--Italy
Women, Black--Employment.
Blacks--Employment.
Surinamese--Social conditions.--Netherlands
Eritreans--Social conditions.--Italy
Netherlands--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Suriname--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Italy--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Eritrea--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Netherlands--Colonies.
Italy--Colonies.
HD6072.2.N4 / M37 2014
331.4086/91