Gutierrez Rodriguez, Encarnacion.

Migration, domestic work and affect : a decolonial approach on value and the feminization of labor / Encarnacion Gutierrez-Rodriguez. - New York : Routledge, 2010. - xiii, 220 p. ; 24 cm. - Routledge research in gender and society ; 26 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Decolonizing migration studies: on transcultural translation -- Coloniality of labor: migration regimes and the Latin American diaspora in Europe -- Governing the household: on the underside of governmentality -- Biopolitics and value: complicating the feminization of labor -- Symbolic power and difference: racializing inequality -- Affective value: ontologies of exploitation -- Decolonial ethics and the politics of affects: talking rights.

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Women household employees--Europe.
Women foreign workers--Europe.
Women immigrants--Employment--Europe.
Sexual division of labor.


Latin America--Emigration and immigration.
Europe--Emigration and immigration.