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  1. The Invisible Carers: Framing Domestic Work(ers) in Gender Equality Policies in Spain.Elin Peterson - 2007 - European Journal of Women's Studies 14 (3):265-280.
    This article explores how paid domestic work is framed in state policies and discourses, drawing upon theoretical discussions on gender, welfare and global care chains. Based on a case study of the political debate on the `reconciliation of personal, family and work life' in Spain, the author argues that dominant policy frames relate gender inequality to women's unpaid domestic work and care, while domestic workers are essentially the invisible `other'. Empowering and disempowering frames are discussed; domestic workers are mainly constructed (...)
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  • A Dialogue with ‘Global Care Chain’ Analysis: Nurse Migration in the Irish Context.Nicola Yeates - 2004 - Feminist Review 77 (1):79-95.
    This article examines the relationship between globalization, care and migration, with specific reference to the ‘global care chain’ concept. The utility of this concept is explored in the light of its current and potential contributions to research on the international division of reproductive labour and transnational care economies. The article asserts the validity of global care chain analysis but argues that its present application to migrant domestic care workers must be broadened in order that its potential may be fully realized. (...)
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  • Imaginaries of Europe: Technologies of Gender, Economies of Power.Gail Lewis - 2006 - European Journal of Women's Studies 13 (2):87-102.
    This article explores some of the ways in which ideas about and attempts to construct a European identity and sense of belonging inscribe an imaginary of Europe that is exclusionary and elitist. It suggests that the symbolic figure of ‘the immigrant woman’ is a container category that simultaneously signifies the non-European and tests and destabilizes claims to Europe's essential characteristics. It also argues that traces of this imaginary of Europe can be found in feminist scholarship on global care chains and (...)
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  • The Au Pair Body: Sex Object, Sister or Student?Rosie Cox - 2007 - European Journal of Women's Studies 14 (3):281-296.
    The employment of au pairs to provide childcare, cleaning and other domestic services has been steadily increasing in the UK. This article provides an analysis of representations of au pairs in the British press and on the websites of agencies placing au pairs. This analysis seeks to understand how such imaginings of au pairs affect their life in Britain and how au pairs themselves respond to such imaginings. It argues that the competing portrayals of au pairs as both sexual sirens (...)
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  • Agency, Complicity, and the Responsibility to Resist Structural Injustice.Corwin Aragon & Alison M. Jaggar - 2018 - Journal of Social Philosophy 49 (3):439-460.
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  • A real job? Regulating household work: The case of Spain.Margarita León - 2013 - European Journal of Women's Studies 20 (2):170-188.
    This article is contextualized within the recent evolution of household employment in Spain. In the context of the strong demand for personal care services – due to rapid population ageing, mass incorporation of women into the labour market and insufficient collective provision of care services – the growth of domestic work is closely related to the overall social organization of care and specific migration policies that have eased, both implicitly and explicitly, the labour supply of foreign women into Spanish households. (...)
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  • Hired as a Caregiver, Demanded as a Housewife: Becoming a Migrant Domestic Worker in Turkey.Ayşe Akalin - 2007 - European Journal of Women's Studies 14 (3):209-225.
    Women from post-socialist countries started migrating to Turkey in the second half of the 1990s to work in the domestic work sector. Migrant domestics have formed their niche as live-in caregivers, due to the disinclination of the existing local labour power to work in the care sector. Yet, the employer mothers, besides asking their live-in workers to tend their children, often demand that they also do the daily chores in the home, purposely leaving the heavy cleaning to their Turkish domestics. (...)
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