Paid Migrant Domestic Labour in a Changing Europe Questions of Gende

This book analyses the changing face of work, gender equality and citizenship in Europe. Drawing on in-depth research conducted in nine different countries, it focuses on the discourses, social relations and political processes that surround paid domestic

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Citizenship, Gender and Diversity

Citizenship, Gender and Diversity

Developed out of FEMCIT, a research project funded under the Sixth Framework of the European Commission examining gendered citizenship, multiculturalism and the impact of contemporary women’s movements in Europe, the series also welcomes submissions from scholars around the globe working in this area on projects with either a European or international focus. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14900

Berit Gullikstad • Guro Korsnes Kristensen • Priscilla Ringrose Editors

Paid Migrant Domestic Labour in a Changing Europe Questions of Gender Equality and Citizenship

Editors Berit Gullikstad Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway

Priscilla Ringrose Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway

Guro Korsnes Kristensen Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway

Citizenship, Gender and Diversity ISBN 978-1-137-51741-8 ISBN 978-1-137-51742-5 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-51742-5

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To our dear colleague Trine Annfelt

Preface

We are in the final stages of writing this book, just as Europe is facing an extreme humanitarian catastrophe, one which the world has not yet seen the end of, and even less has found the solution to. As a result of intolerable conditions i