Black Girls : Migrant Domestic Workers and Colonial Legacies

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Studies in Global Migration History Ser. ; v.4

Studies in Global Migration History ; Volume 16

Studies in Global Migration History ; Volume 4

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Black Girls; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Tables; Introduction; 1. Keywords; 1 Postcoloniality; 2 Black Europe; 3 Memory and Identity; 4 Intersectionality; 5 Body Work; 6 Home; 7 Postcolonial Cultural Capital; 2. Differences and Similarities in History; Suriname; Colonialism and Slavery; Independence; Moving from Suriname to the Netherlands; Migration and Racism in the Netherlands; Living in Rotterdam; Afro-Surinamese Women in the Dutch Care Sector; Eritrea; Eritrea's History and Italian Colonialism; Eritrea towards Independence; Eritrean Migration to Italy

Migration and Racism in ItalyEritreans in Rome; Eritrean Women in the Italian Domestic Sector; PART 1: Postcolonial Migrants; 3. Colonial Acculturation and Belonging; 1 Black Dutch; 2 The 'Ambivalence' of Bonds; 3 The Case of School Education; 4. Paramaribo and Asmara as Culture-Contact Zones; 1 Separation and Survival of Domestic Slavery; 2 A Hierarchical Cultural Contamination; 3 Spatial Propinquity and Cultures; 4 Hierarchies within 'Familiarity'; 5 The Case of Mass and Popular Culture; 5. Postcolonial Encounters: Arriving in Italy and in the Netherlands

1 Class and Belonging 'after' the Migration2 Asymmetries of Recognition; 3 The Legacy of Slavery; PART 2: Migrant Domestic Labour; 6. A Labour Niche for Postcolonial Migrant Women; 1 Niche Formation and Coloniality of Power; 2 Substitution across Class and 'Race'/Ethnicity; 3 Religious Figures and Employment; 4 The 'Good' Job; 5 Agencies and 'Ethnic' Representations; 7. Narratives and Practices of Work and Identity; 1 Everyday (Domestic) Practices and Identity; 2 Rhythms and Gestures of Care; 3 Self-Identifications between Care, Cleaning and Servitude; 4 Time, Tasks and Female Models

5 Time, Body and Enactment of Power8. Ethnicisation of Care and Domestic Skills; 1 'Ethnicisation' and the Right Personality; 2 Subservience as a Skill; 3 Familiarity with Domestic Work as a Social Position; 4 Reversal of Hierarchies; 5 Respect and Discipline; 6 The Case of Food and Cooking; 9. Racism at Work, under Colonial Legacies; 1 Racism, Ressentiment and Slavery; 2 Home Care as a 'Scenario of Racism'; 3 Spatial Confinement; 4 Bodies: Wearing Inferiority; 5 Re-Enacting Colonial Times; Conclusions; Appendices; I Notes on the Fieldwork; II Notes on the Interviewees; Bibliography; Index

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