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Author: Rosie Cox File Type: pdf Au pairs are relied upon by tens of thousands of UK families to do everything from childcare and housework to elder care, pet feeding and waiting at dinner parties. Traditionally thought of as privileged and well-educated young women having fun on a gap year abroad, au pairs have been excluded from many of the recent discussions on migrant domestic labour. However, since 2008 au pairing has been effectively unregulated in the UK and the result is that au pairs now constitute one of the poorest paid and least protected groups of workers.Through an examination of lived experiences, As an Equal? draws on detailed research to examine au pairs and the families who host them in contemporary Britain, revealing au pairing to have become increasingly indistinguishable from other forms of domestic labour. Crucially, hosting an au pair is shown to form part of families attempts to provide good (enough) childcare in the context of extended working hours and poor public childcare provision. This increased reliance of families on an exploited workforce is shown to form part of the wider political climate of economic austerity, and raises profound questions about the position of women within the neoliberal economy.**ReviewA revelatory study. This is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the conundrums and inequalities framing the global crisis of work and care.(Mary Romero, author of The Maids Daughter Living Inside and Outside the American Dream) This informative and incisive study reveals the relations of care, inter-dependence, affection, and exploitation as young women from Europe help more affluent women. The authors provide an indisputable case for reform.(Linda McDowell, Oxford University (Emerita)) Brimming with insights, this book challenges the stereotype of the au pair as an equal member of a traditional English family. The authors expose the problematic nature of au pairing at a time of deregulation and hidden exploitation.(Helen Jarvis, Newcastle University) Fills an important lacuna in the area of transnational migrant domestic and care work. A must read for students and scholars of care work in the age of neoliberal care regimes.(Helma Lutz, author of The New Maids) This groundbreaking book exposes the economic and political forces that shape our homes and the work that goes on inside them.(Bridget Anderson, University of Bristol) A much needed account of the reality of au pairing, which also poignantly illustrates how intersectional inequalities are produced in todays Europe. An insightful read for all social scientists.(Sabrina Marchetti, Ca Foscari University of Venice) In the first large-scale investigation of a largely hidden world, the authors provide an incisive account of the lived experiences of au pairs and their host families, showing how au pairing has become an integral part of austerity Britain.(Majella Kilkey, University of Sheffield) A very important contribution to understanding current variations of domestic labor. Brilliantly places the phenomenon of au pairing both in a historical context and in the present-day neoliberal reality of the UK.(Helle Stenum, Roskilde University) Using the voices of both au pairs and their hosts, the book expertly demonstrates how the historical context and structural inequalities that frame au pairing influence the lived experiences of au pairs in the UK.(Zuzana Sekerakova Burikova, Masaryk University) About the Author Rosie Cox is Reader in geography and gender studies at Birkbeck, University of London. She has been researching au pairs and other forms of paid domestic labour in the UK for nearly 20 years. She is author of The Servant Problem Domestic Employment in a Global Economy (2006 I.B. Tauris), co-editor of Dirt New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination (2007 I.B. Tauris), co-author of Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food Exploring Alternatives (2008 Berg) and Dirt The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life (2011 Profile).She is currently involved in an ESRC funded project to examine the effects of the deregulation of au pairing in the UK. Dr Nicky Busch received her PhD from the University of London. She is currently a Research Fellow on the ESRC-funded project Au pairing after the au pair scheme new migration rules and childcare in private homes in the UK. Her research covers migration and migration policy, low paid work in urban environments, transnational labour flows and the study of gendered and racialised work.

Author: Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso File Type: pdf Here, for the first time in English--and from the Mexican perspective--is the story of Mexican migration to the United States and the astonishing forced repatriation of hundreds of thousands of people to Mexico during the worldwide economic crisis of the Great Depression. While Mexicans were hopeful for economic reform following the Mexican revolution, by the 1930s, large numbers of Mexican nationals had already moved north and were living in the United States in one of the twentieth centurys most massive movements of migratory workers. Fernando Saul Alanis Enciso provides an illuminating backstory that demonstrates how fluid and controversial the immigration and labor situation between Mexico and the United States was in the twentieth century and continues to be in the twenty-first. When the Great Depression took hold, the United States stepped up its enforcement of immigration laws and forced more than 350,000 Mexicans, including their U.S.-born children, to return to their home country. While the Mexican government was fearful of the resulting economic implications, President Lazaro Cardenas fostered the repatriation effort for mostly symbolic reasons relating to domestic politics. In clarifying the repatriation episode through the larger history of Mexican domestic and foreign policy, Alanis connects the dots between the aftermath of the Mexican revolution and the relentless political tumult surrounding todays borderlands immigration issues.