Laboring in the Shadow of Empire

Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal

Celeste Vaughan Curington (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

236 Seiten

2024
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2795-0 (ISBN)

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Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal examines the everyday lives of an African-descendant care service workforce that labors in an ostensibly “anti-racial” Europe and against the backdrop of the Portuguese colonial empire. While much of the literature on global care work has focused on Asian and Latine migrant care workers, there is comparatively less research that explicitly examines African care workers and their migration histories to Europe. Sociologist Celeste Vaughan Curington focuses on Portugal—a European setting with comparatively liberal policies around family settlement and naturalization for migrants. In this setting, rapid urbanization in the late twentieth century, along with a national push to reconcile work and family, has shaped the growth of paid home care and cleaning service industries. Many researchers focus on informal work settings, where immigrant rights are restricted and many workers are undocumented or without permanent residence status. Curington instead examines workers who have accessed citizenship or permanent residence status and also explores African women’s experiences laboring in care and service industries in the formal market, revealing how deeply colonial and intersectional logics of a racialized and international division of reproductive labor in Portugal render these women “hyper-invisible” and “hyper-visible” as “appropriate” workers in Lisbon.

CELESTE VAUGHAN CURINGTON is an assistant professor of sociology at Boston University. She is the coauthor of The Dating Divide: Race and Desire in the Era of Online Romance.

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Making of a Gendered and Racialized Care Sector in Portugal
Chapter 2: Converging Differences: Stories of Migration
Chapter 3: Confronting Everyday Racism in Portugal
Chapter 4: Negotiating and Challenging Gendered Racism in Home Care
Chapter 5: Negotiating and Challenging Gendered Racism in Cleaning Work
Chapter 6: Spaces and Places of Joyful Belonging
Chapter 7: Laboring beyond the Shadow of Empire
Methodological Appendix

Suggested Readings
Glossary
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.09.2024
Zusatzinfo	7 B-W figure and 1 table
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	54 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-9788-2795-4 / 1978827954
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-2795-0 / 9781978827950
Zustand	Neuware