The role of disillusionment in rethinking and rehearsing better migrant domestic labour relations in Chile.
Despite extensive research on employers' discourses about domestic or household workers as 'part of the family', fewer scholars have examined how workers may express desires for or experiences of pseudo-kinship. Shifting away from perspectives that foreground labour rights, we take pseudo-kinship di...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 52; no. 8; pp. 2081 - 2099 |
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