Laboring in the shadow of empire : race, gender, and care work in Portugal / Celeste Vaugh Curington.

Author
Curington, Celeste Vaughan, 1988- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2024]
Description
v, 227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

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Series
Inequality at work: perspectives on race, gender, class, and labor
Summary note
"Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal examines the everyday lives of an African descendant care service workforce that labors in an ostensibly "anti-racial" Europe and against the backdrop of the Portuguese colonial empire. While much of the literature on global care work has focused on Asian and Latine migrant care workers, there is comparatively less research that explicitly examines African care workers and their migration histories to Europe. Sociologist Celeste V. Curington focuses on Portugal: a European setting with comparatively liberal policies around family settlement and naturalization for migrants. In this setting, rapid urbanization in the late twentieth century, along with a national push to reconcile work and family, have shaped the growth of paid home care and cleaning service industries. Many researchers focus on informal work settings where immigrant rights are restricted and many workers are undocumented or without permanent residence status. Curington instead examined workers who have accessed citizenship or permanent residence status and also explores African women's experiences laboring in care and service industries in the formal market, revealing how deeply colonial and intersectional logics of a racialized and international division of reproductive labor in Portugal render these women "hyper-invisible" and "hyper-visible" as "appropriate" workers in Lisbon"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
  • 9781978827950 (paperback)
  • 1978827954 (paperback)
  • 9781978827967 (hardcover)
  • 1978827962 (hardcover)
LCCN
2023051599
OCLC
1415239555
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