Childcare Workers, Global Migration and Digital Media

✍ Scribed by Youna Kim

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 214
• Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies 30
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the transnational mobility, everyday life and digital media use of childcare workers living and working abroad. Focusing specifically on Filipina, Indonesian, and Sri Lankan nannies in Europe, it offers insights as to the causes and implications of women’s mobility, using data drawn from ethnographic research examining transnational migration, work experiences, family, and relationships. While drawing attention to the hidden, largely invisible and marginalized lives of these women, this research reveals the ways in which digital media, especially the use of mobile phones and the Internet, empower them but also continue to reinforce existing power relations and inequalities. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives from media and communications, sociology, cultural studies and anthropology, the book combines theoretical perspectives with grounded case studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Minorities and the Digital Media
From Digital Utopia to the Everyday
Digital Media and Everyday Life
Documenting the Undocumented
2 Global Nannies: A Global-Historical Perspective
Feminization of Migration: Nannies from the Global South
Why Women Move: Development as Freedom
Remittances for Development: Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka
New Nannies of Europe
Paris: The Other Side of the Global City
3 Mobile Phone for Empowerment? Work Life, Power and Freedom
Mobile Phone as Social Capital
Disposable Life
Mobile Connection, Disempowerment and Inequality
4 Digital Media for Intimacy? Family Life and Transnational Mothering
Intensive Mothering: Gender Inequality Unchanged
Intimacy and Digital Fatigue
Morality of Mothering
5 Digital Media and Intergenerational Migration
Mediated Migration: “Paris is Beautiful”
Digital Media in an Emotional Sphere
Self-Expression Online: “I am Doing Nothing”
6 The Care of the Self: “As a Woman, Not as a Mother or a Nanny”
Self-Sacrifice: Money, Time, Leisure
Not Part of the Family
Gossip Community, Sexuality, and Erotic Capital
Digital Media as Affective Practice: “Doing Things Together”
7 Racism, Ethnic Media, and Home
Banal Racism in Everyday Life
Ethnic Media, Ethnic Enclave
Home Always There: “I’m Not Going to Stay Here Forever”
8 Cosmopolitan Hospitality
Whose Cosmopolitanism?
Hospitality as an Urgent Response
Bibliography
Index