The Dual Discourse About Peruvian Domestic Workers in Santiago de Chile: Class, Race, and a Nationalist Project.
This article examines the functions of the “dual discourse”, about Peruvian migrant domestic workers in contemporary Santiago. A 2002 field study found that middle-class employers of Peruvian workers simultaneously praised them as superior workers and denigrated them as uneducated and uncivilized. W...
| Publicado en: | Latin American Politics & Society Vol. 48; no. 1; pp. 87 - 117 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Spring 2006
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