The making of an 'ideal' live-in migrant care worker

n This essay investigates the contested processes through which gender and racial ideologies are practiced thereby place specific group of women in particular gendered and racialized labor markets. The migration of female live-in care workers to Taiwan exemplifies how gender and racial ideologies are embodied in everyday practices that justify the paid care work done by these women and that produce their subordinate status. In this essay, I take the problematic of representation of ?migrant care workers? as a point of entry, to investigate how a gendered-racialized ideology is utilized to legitimate and naturalize the gendered-racialized division of care labor within the global capitalist context

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