Obligatory reading

Watch one of following movies: 

• Roma (2018): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6155172/ available at Netflix
• The Help (2011) 
• Thank you Soma 

and read following two texts:

Spyrou, S. 2009. “Between Intimacy and Intolerance: Greek Cypriot Children’s Encounters with Asian Domestic Workers.” Childhood 16(2): 155-173. 

Parreñas, R.S. 2000. „Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers and the International Division of Reproductive Labor“ Gender and Society 14 (4): 560-580. 

Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers and the International Division of Reproductive Labor

Recommended reading

Anderson, B. 2000. Doing the dirty work? The Global Politics of Domestic Labour. London: Zed. 

Anna Triandafyllidou, Sabrina Marchetti (eds.). 2015. Employers, Agencies and Immigration: Paying for Care. Farnham: Ashgate. 

Bahna, Miloslav. 2014 “Slovak care workers in Austria: How important is the context of the sending country.” Journal of Contemporary European Studies 22(4): 411-426. 

Ehrenreich, B.; Hochshcild, A.R. (eds.) 2002. Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy. London: Granta Books. 

Hess, S., A. Puckhaber. 2004. „‘big sisters’ are better domestic servants?! comments on the booming au pair business“ Feminist review 77. 

Hoerder, Dirk, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Silke Neunsinger. 2015. Towards a Global History of Domestic and Caregiving Workers. Leiden: Brill. 

Hondagneu-Sotelo, P. 2001. Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence. California: University of California Press. 

Isaksen, Lise Widding. 2010. Global care work : gender and migration in Nordic societies. Nordic Academic Press 

Isaksen, Lise Widding; Devi, Sambasivan Uma; Hochschild, Arlie Russell. 2008. Global Care Crisis: A Problem of Capital, Care Chain, or Commons? American Behavioral Scientist. 52: 405-425. 

Isaksen, Lise Widding; Devi, Uma; Hochschild, Arlie. 2008. Global Care Crisis: Mother and Child's Eye View. Sociologia. 56: 61-85. 

Lutz, H. (ed.). 2008. Migration and domestic work; A European Perspective on a Global Theme. Aldershot: Ashgate. 

Macdonald, Cameron Lynne 1998. “Manufacturing Motherhood: The Shadow Work of Nannies and Au Pairs.” Qualitative Sociology 21 (1): 25-53. 

Parreñas, R. S. 2001. Servants of globalization: Women, migration and domestic work. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 

Parreñas, R.S. 2002. „The Care Crisis in the Philippines: Children and Transnational Families in the New Global Ekonomy.“ In: B. Ehrenreich; A.R. Hochshcild (eds.) Global Woman: Nannies, maids and sex workers in the new economy. London: Granta Books, s. 39–54. 

Williams, Fiona. 2010. “Themes and Concepts in Migration, Gender and Care.” Social Policy and Society 9 (3): 385-396.  

Cox, R. 2013. The complications of ‘Hiring a Hubby’: Gender relations and the commoditization of home maintenance in New Zealand. Social & Cultural Geography, Vol. 14, No. 5, 575–590. 

Cox, R. 2015 Materials, skills and gender identities: men, women and home improvement practices in New Zealand. Gender Place and Culture DOI 10.1080/0966369X.2015.1034248.

Kilkey, M. et al. 2013. Gender, migration and domestic work : masculinities, male labour and fathering in the UK and USA. Palgrave Macmillan. 

Näre, L. 2010. Sri Lankan Men Working as Cleaners and Carers: Negotiating Masculinity in Naples. Men and Masculinities 13(1) 65-86. 

Scrinzi, F. 2010. Masculinities and the International Division of Care: Migrant Male Domestic Workers in Italy and France. Men and Masculinities 13(1) 44-64.  

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