Disposable domestics
Subtitle: immigrant women workers in the global economy
By: Grace Chang ; forewords by Ai-Jen Poo and Mimi Abramovitz ; afterword by Alicia Garza
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781608465286
Subjects: Asian Foreign workers; Latin American Foreign workers; Women foreign workers; Women household employees
Description: The prevailing image of migrants, particular women of color, is that of a drain on "our" resources. Grace Chang's vital account of migrant women-- frequently undocumented and disenfranchised, working as nannies, domestic workers, janitors, nursing aides, and home care workers-- proves just the opposite.
Notes: First published by South End Press in 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Breeding ignorance, breeding hatred; title: Undocumented Latinas : the new employable mother; title: The nanny visa : the Bracero Program revisited; title: Global exchange : the World Bank, "Welfare Reform," and the trade in migrant women; title: Immigrants and workfare workers : employable but "not employed"; title: Gatekeeping and housekeeping.