Migration and Care Labour Theory, Policy and Politics [Paperback]

The provision of care has been widely referred to as facing a 'crisis'. International migrants are increasingly relied upon to provide care  as domestic workers, nannies, care assistants and nurses. This international volume examines the global construction of migrant care labour and how it manifests itself in different contexts.Introduction; Isabel Shutes and Bridget Anderson PART I: THEORISING MIGRANT CARE LABOUR 1. Making Connections across the Transnational Political Economy of Care; Fiona Williams 2. Nation Building: Domestic Labour and Immigration Controls in the UK; Bridget Anderson 3. The Construction of Migrant Domestic Workers as ''One of the Family''; Rhacel Salazar Parre?as PART II: THE INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS OF MIGRANT CARE LABOUR 4. Three Domains of Migrant Domestic Care Work: The Interplay of Care, Employment and Migration Policies in Austria; Gudrun Bauer, Bettina Haidinger and August ?sterle 5. A Right to Care? Immigration Controls and the Care Labour of Non-Citizens; Isabel Shutes 6. Resisting the Crisis at What Cost? Migrant Care Workers in Private Households; Zyab Ib??ez and Margarita Le?n 7. Supermaids: The Racial Branding of Global Filipino Care Labour; Anna Romina Guevarra 8. Transnational Households: Migrants and Care, at Home and Abroad; Sarah van Walsum and Maybritt Jill Alpes PART III: GOVERNANCE AND POLITICAL MOBILISATION ACROSS CARE, WORK AND MIGRATION 9. Towards Flexibility with Security for Migrant Care Workers: A Comparative Analysis of Personal Home Care in Toronto and Los Angeles; Cynthia Cranford 10. The Global Governance of Domestic Work; Guy Mundlak and Hila Shamir Conclusion; Bridget Anderson and Isabel ShutesMaybritt Jill Alpes, VU University Amsterdam, The NetherlandsGudrun Bauer, Vienna University of Economics and Business, AustriaCynthia Cranford, University of Toronto, CanadaAnna Romina Guevarra, University of Illinois at Chicago, USABettina Haidinger ,Working Life Research Centre (FORBA), AustriaZyab Iba?ez, Universitat AlS8