Global care work gender and migration in Nordic societies
Presenting empirical research on the lives of care workers, sex workers, au pairs, and their families, this anthology is a unique study of gender and migration. Written by researchers from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, the account brings the Nordic example to the international debate on how...
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Lund :
Nordic Academic Press
2010
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1. Introduction: global care work in Nordic societies - Lise Widding Isaksen
- I Domestic Work and Images of Equality
- 2. Au-pair migration and new inequalities: The transnational production of corruption - Helle Stenum
- 3. The snake in the grass of gender equality: Au-pairing in women-friendly Norway - Mariya Bikova
- 4. Cultural exchange or cheap domestic labour?: Constructions of 'au pair' in four Nordic countries - Catharina Calleman
- 5. Doing gender equality: Cleaners employed in Norwegian middle-class homes - Tove Ingebjørg Fjell
- II Transnational Experience and the Labour Market
- 6. Sex workers' transnational and local motherhood: presence and/or absence? - Hanne Marlene Dahl & Marlene Spanger
- 7. Transnational care: The social dimensions of international nurse recruitment - Lise Widding Isaksen
- 8. Care work and migration politics in Sweden - Ellinor Platzer
- III The Nation, Citizenship and Democracy
- 9. Global care and Finnish social policy - Minna Zechner
- 10. Public care work in private contexts: A historical perspective on the Swedish welfare state - Karin Carlsson
- 11. Global domestic workers in Denmark: Labour market regulation, union representation, and solidarity strategies - Lise Lotte Hansen
- About the authors.
