Disposable Domestics

Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy
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419 g
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226x151x22 mm
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Grace Chang is a writer and activist, joining in struggles for the rights of migrant women and women of color in the United States. She teaches about social science research methods and ethics; women resisting and surviving violence in all forms; and grassroots, transnational, feminist social justice movements. She is founding director of WORD (Women Of color Revolutionary Dialogues), a support group for women and queer and trans people of color building community through spoken word, political theater, music, dance and film.Foreword by Alicia Garza writer and Oakland-based activist. Garza is one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter, an organization founded in 2013 after the shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin.Afterword by Ai-jen Poo is the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance and the codirector of the Caring Across Generations campaign. She is a 2014 MacArthur fellow and was named one of Time 100’s world’s most influential people in 2012. She is the author of The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America. Follow her on Twitter @aijenpoo
IntroductionBreeding Ignorance, Breeding HatredChapter 1: Undocumented Latinas: The New Employable MotherChapter 2: The Nanny Visa: The Bracero Program RevisitedChapter 3: Immigrants and Workfare Workers: Emplyable but "Not Employed"Chapter 4: The Global Trade in Filipina WorkersConclusion: Gatekeeping and Housekeeping
This classic work sheds light on the lives and struggles of immigrant women domestic workers.

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