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

SeriesStudies in global social history, 1874-6705 ; volume 16
Studies in global migration history ; volume 4
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN9789004276925 (hardback : acid-free paper)