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Genre, Migrations et Emplois Domestiques en France et en Italie. Construction de la Non Qualification et de L’altérité Ethnique

This book is based on an ethnographic comparative study of migrant women's employment in the care sector in France and Italy. Care as a resource is unequally distributed in the world: middle-class women in affluent countries rely on migrant women to ‘buy out’ domestic and care work, in societies characterised by durable inequalities in the sexual division of labour and the restructuring of public care provision. The book explores the different ways in which Otherness and ‘skill’ are socially constructed in different forms of organisation of work, examining the traditional household-based domestic service but also non-profit associations providing care services.