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Unsettled Labors Rachel H. Brown

Unsettled Labors By Rachel H. Brown

Unsettled Labors by Rachel H. Brown


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Rachel H. Brown explores the overlooked labor of migrant workers in Israels eldercare industry, showing that live-in eldercare in Palestine/Israel is an often invisible area where settler colonialism is reproduced.

Unsettled Labors Summary

Unsettled Labors: Migrant Care Work in Palestine/Israel by Rachel H. Brown

In Unsettled Labors, Rachel H. Brown explores the overlooked labor of migrant workers in Israels eldercare industry. Brown argues that live-in eldercare in Palestine/Israel, which is primarily done by migrant workers, is an often invisible area where settler colonialism is reproduced culturally, economically, and biologically. Situating Israeli labor markets within a longer history of imperialism and dispossession of Palestinian land, Brown positions migrant eldercare within the resulting tangle of Israeli laws, policies, and social discourses. She draws from interviews with caretakers, public statements, court documents, and first-hand fieldwork to uncover the inherently contradictory nature of elder care work: the intimate presence of South and Southeast Asian workers in the home unsettles the idea of the Israeli home as an exclusively Jewish space. By paying close attention to the comparative racialization of migrant workers, Palestinians, asylum seekers, and Mizrahi and Ashkenazi settlers, Brown raises important questions of labor, social reproduction, displacement, and citizenship told through the stories of collective care provided by migrant workers in a settler colonial state.

Unsettled Labors Reviews

An important intervention that critically engages decolonial and migration studies to illustrate the liminal positioning of migrant caregivers in Palestine/Israel as simultaneously aliens and intimate workers and identifies the physical and affective tolls of this labor. -- Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, author of * Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States *
Rachel H. Browns central argument that there is a necessary relation between the presence of migrant care workers focused on eldercare in contemporary Palestine/Israel and settler colonialism and neoliberalism is both timely and important. This exciting book provides a robust and compelling discussion of migrant care workers laboring and position as we consider the ongoing Palestine/Israel conflict. -- Attiya Ahmad, author of * Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait *

About Rachel H. Brown

Rachel H. Brown is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. The Coloniality of Israels Reproductive Regime 31
2. Intimacy, Alienation, and Affective Automation 63
3. Reproducing the Settler Home 101
4. Household Resistance and National Love 139
5. Collective Care and the Politics of Visibility 176
Epilogue 210
Notes 219
Bibliography 259
Index 301

Additional information

NGR9781478030591
9781478030591
1478030593
Unsettled Labors: Migrant Care Work in Palestine/Israel by Rachel H. Brown
New
Paperback
Duke University Press
2024-08-02
328
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