TY  - BOOK
AU  - Marchetti,Sabrina
TI  - Black girls: migrant domestic workers and colonial legacies 
T2  - Studies in Global Social History
SN  - 9789004276932
AV  - HD6072.2.N4 M37 2014
U1  - 331.4086/91 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Women household employees
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Italy
KW  - Women, Black
KW  - Employment
KW  - Blacks
KW  - Surinamese
KW  - Eritreans
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Suriname
KW  - Eritrea
KW  - Colonies
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004276932
ER  -