Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy

Name: Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy
ISBN: 9781608465286

Grace Chang traces how immigration policy, welfare reform, and global capital create a low-paid, stigmatized, yet socially essential workforce of immigrant women.

Migration Domestic Labor Labor Rights Race and Gender Class and Gender Care Economy

Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy

📝 Book Review & Summary

Disposable Domestics reverses the political story that casts migrants as a drain. Chang shows that immigrant women vilified in public debate are often the workers holding together cleaning, care, nursing, and service economies.

For FemRes, the book connects global care chains to U.S. immigration politics. It shows that care crises are not natural shortages; they are produced through borders, welfare policy, racialized labor markets, and employer power.

Publication Info

Author: Grace Chang

Published: July 19, 2016

ISBN: 9781608465286

Language: English

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