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Author Marchetti, Sabrina, author.

Title Black girls : migrant domestic workers and colonial legacies / by Sabrina Marchetti.

Publication Info. Leiden : Brill, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Studies in Global Social History ; 16
Studies in global migration history
Studies in global social history ; 16.
Studies in global migration history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary In today's Europe, migrant domestic workers are indispensable in supporting many households which, without their employment, would lack sufficient domestic and care labour. Black Girls collects and explores the stories of some of the first among these workers. They are the Afro-Surinamese and the Eritrean women who in the 1960s and 70s migrated to the former colonising country, the Netherlands and Italy respectively, and there became domestic and care workers. Sabrina Marchetti analyses the narratives of some of these women in order to powerfully demonstrate how the legacies of the colonial past have been, at the same time, both their tool of resistance and the reason for their subordination.
Contents Introduction -- Keywords -- Postcoloniality -- Black Europe -- Memory and identity -- Intersectionality -- Body work -- Home -- Postcolonial cultural capital -- Differences and similarities in history -- Suriname -- Colonialism and slavery -- Independence -- Moving from Suriname to The Netherlands -- Migration and racism in The Netherlands -- Living in Rotterdam -- Afro-Surinamese women in the Dutch care sector -- Eritrea -- Eritrea's history and Italian colonialism -- Eritrea towards independence -- Eritrean migration to Italy -- Migration and racism in Italy -- Eritreans in Rome -- Eritrean women in the Italian domestic sector -- Part I. Postcolonial migrants -- Colonial acculturation and belonging -- Black Dutch -- The 'ambivalence' of bonds -- The case of school education -- Paramaribo and Asmara as culture-contact zones -- Separation and survival of domestic slavery -- A hierarchical cultural contamination -- Spatial propinquity and cultures -- Hierarchies within 'familiarity' -- The case of mass and popular culture -- Postcolonial encounters : arriving in Italy and The Netherlands -- Class and belonging 'after' the migration -- Asymmetries of recognition -- The legacy of slavery -- Part 2. Migrant domestic labour -- A labour niche for postcolonial migrant women -- Niche formation and coloniality of power -- Substitution across class and 'race'/ethnicity -- Religious figure and employment -- The 'good' job -- Agencies and 'ethnic' representations -- Narratives and practices of work and identity -- Everyday (domestic) practices and identity -- Rhythms and gestures of care -- Self-identification between care, cleaning and servitude -- Time, tasks and female models -- Time, body and enactment of power -- Ethnicisation of care and domestic skills -- 'Ethnicisation' and the right personality -- Subservience as a skill -- Familiarity with domestic work as a social position -- Reversal of hierarchiesrespect and discipline -- The case of food and cooking -- Racism at work, under colonial legacies -- Racism, ressentiment and slavery -- Home care as a 'scenario of racism' -- Spatial confinement -- Bodies : wearing inferiority -- Re-enacting colonial times -- Conclusions -- Appendix I: Notes on the fieldwork -- Appendix II: Notes on the interviewees.
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Subject Women household employees -- Netherlands -- Social conditions.
Women household employees.
Netherlands.
Social conditions.
Women household employees -- Italy -- Social conditions.
Italy.
Surinamese -- Netherlands -- Social conditions.
Surinamese.
Eritreans -- Italy -- Social conditions.
Eritreans.
Netherlands -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration.
Social aspects.
Suriname -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Suriname.
Italy -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Eritrea -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Eritrea.
Netherlands -- Colonies.
Colonies.
Italy -- Colonies.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Marchetti, Sabrina. Black girls 9789004276925 (DLC) 2014014320 (OCoLC)876562698
ISBN 9789004276932 (electronic book)
9004276939 (electronic book)
130694256X (e-book)
9781306942560 (e-book)
9789004276925
9004276920