Gender, Migration and Domestic Service
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Author_Jacqueline Andall
Black Feminist Thought
Black women's migration experiences Italy
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Communist Women
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Ethnic Minority Women
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Female Migrants
feminist sociology
Foreign Domestic Workers
intersectionality studies
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Italian Domestic Workers
Italian Family
Italian Women
Lazio Region
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Migrant Domestic Workers
migrant labour Italy
Migrant Women
Migrant Women's Labour
National Congress
Overseas Domestic Workers
race and gender relations
Residential Homes
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social marginality research
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women
Women's Charter
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Product details
- ISBN 9780754610885
- Weight: 830g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 03 Nov 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The book examines the experiences of Black women in Italy from the 1970s to the 1990s. Although Italy is still perceived as a recent immigration country, the book demonstrates how Black women were among the first groups of new migrants to the country. Black women migrating to Italy were employed almost exclusively as live-in domestic workers and detailed attention is paid to the history and political organization of this sector. Unlike much published work in Italian, this book adopts an integrated form of analysis where gender, ethnicity and class are seen to be interconnected constructs. The book also situates Black women within the framework of the national constituency of gender. This approach challenges the ideology surrounding the Italian family and demonstrates that while live-in domestic work created specific forms of social marginality for Black women, it paradoxically allowed Italian women to express their new social identities within and outside the family. The book concludes that Italian women have largely failed in their attempts to transform the division of labour within the home and that the decision to employ other (migrant) women to fulfill household tasks is a trend which sits uneasily within the framework of an inclusive feminist project for women.
Jacqueline Andall, University of Bath, Avon, UK
