Title The experiences of Ghanaian live-in caregivers in the United States / Martha Donkor.

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Description	1 online resource (xvii, 143 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Women, globalization, migration, and work -- Ghana in the global political economy -- Ghanaian women and the international migration process -- The chance and choice of live-in caregiving -- The dynamics of live-in caregiving -- Organizing family from a distance -- Live in at what cost? -- Rethinking immigrant women's care work.
Summary	This book documents the experiences of Ghanaian live-in caregivers and argues that they value care work on their own terms and not on American perceptions. The challenges of work in a different sociocultural context elicited responses from the women that challenged some long-held assumptions about immigrant women's care work.
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Subject	Women caregivers -- United States.
	Women immigrants -- United States.
	Foreign workers, Ghanaian -- United States.
	Ghanaians -- United States.
	Caregivers -- United States.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
	Foreign workers, Ghanaian
	Ghanaians
	Women caregivers
	Women immigrants
	United States
Other Form:	Print version: Donkor, Martha. Experiences of Ghanaian live-in caregivers in the United States. Lanham : Lexington Books, 2017 9781498564458 (DLC) 2017047426
ISBN	9781498564465 (electronic book)
	1498564461 (electronic book)
	9781498564458 (hardcover alkaline paper)