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15 - Global Domestic Work

from Part IV - Circulations of Laborers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2023

By
Pei-Chia Lan
Edited by
Marcelo J. Borges  and
Madeline Y. Hsu
Marcelo J. Borges
Affiliation:
Dickinson College, Pennsylvania
Madeline Y. Hsu
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin
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Summary

Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations presents an authoritative overview of the various continuities and changes in migration and globalization from the 1800s to the present day. Despite revolutionary changes in communication technologies, the growing accessibility of long-distance travel, and globalization across major economies, the rise of nation-states empowered immigration regulation and bureaucratic capacities for enforcement that curtailed migration. One major theme worldwide across the post-1800 centuries was the differentiation between “skilled” and “unskilled” workers, often considered through a racialized lens; it emerged as the primary divide between greater rights of immigration and citizenship for the former, and confinement to temporary or unauthorized migrant status for the latter. Through thirty-one chapters, this volume further evaluates the long global history of migration; and it shows that despite the increased disciplinary systems, the primacy of migration remains and continues to shape political, economic, and social landscapes around the world.

Keywords

Domestic WorkCareworkLabor MigrationGuest WorkerColonizationLabor BrokerGlobal Care ChainEast AsiaThe PhilippinesIndonesia
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The Cambridge History of Global Migrations , pp. 319 - 338
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Guevarra, Anna Romina. Marketing Dreams, Manufacturing Heroes: The Transnational Labor Brokering of Filipino Workers. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2010.Google Scholar
Killias, Olivia. Follow the Maid: Domestic Worker Migration in and from Indonesia. Copenhagen: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, 2018.Google Scholar
Lan, Pei-Chia. “Contested Skills and Constrained Mobility: Migrant Carework Skill Regimes in Taiwan and Japan,” Comparative Migration Studies 10, 37 (2022), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-022-00311-2.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lan, Pei-Chia. Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Lutz, Helma. The New Maids: Transnational Women and the Care Economy. London: Zed Books, 2011.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
McKay, Deirdre. Global Filipinos: Migrants’ Lives in the Virtual Village. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012.Google Scholar
Oishi, Nana. Women in Motion: Globalization, State Politics, and Labor Migration in Asia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar. Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration, and Domestic Work, 2nd ed. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015.Google Scholar
Parreñas, Rhacel Salazar. Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021.Google Scholar
Paul, Mary Anju. Multinational Maids: Stepwise Migration in a Global Labor Market. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.Google Scholar

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