Cultural politics of emotions in households: migrant domestic workers in Macau.
This article discusses the emotions and cultural politics within domestic work contexts involving employers and migrant domestic workers in Macau. Since Macau was transferred back to China from Portugal in 1999, the Macau SAR government has pursued a neoliberal economic policy that emphasizes econom...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 18; no. 4; pp. 464 - 482 |
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