Disposable domestics: immigrant women workers in the global economy

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Introduction -- Breeding ignorance, breeding hatred -- Undocumented Latinas : the new employable mother -- The nanny visa : the Bracero Program revisited -- Global exchange : the World Bank, "Welfare Reform," and the trade in migrant women -- Immigrants and workfare workers : employable but "not employed" -- Gatekeeping and housekeeping.;"Illegal. Unamerican. Disposable. In a nation with an unprecedented history of immigration, the prevailing image of those who cross our borders in search of equal opportunity is that of a drain. Grace Chang's vital account of immigrant women--who work as nannies, domestic workers, janitors, nursing aides, and homecare workers--proves just the opposite: the women who perform our least desirable jobs are the most crucial to our economy and society. Disposable Domestics highlights the unrewarded work immigrant women perform as caregivers, cleaners, and servers and shows how these women are actively resisting the exploitation they face"-- Introduction -- Breeding ignorance, breeding hatred -- Undocumented Latinas : the new employable mother -- The nanny visa : the Bracero Program revisited -- Global exchange : the World Bank, "Welfare Reform," and the trade in migrant women -- Immigrants and workfare workers : employable but "not employed" -- Gatekeeping and housekeeping.