Care Activism: Migrant Domestic Workers, Movement-Building, and Communities of Care

by Ethel Tungohan

Book Overview

Care activism challenges the stereotype of downtrodden migrant caregivers by showing that care workers have distinct ways of caring for themselves, for each other, and for the larger transnational community of care workers and their families. Ethel Tungohan illuminates how the goals and desires of migrant care worker activists goes beyond political considerations like policy changes and overturning power structures. Through practices of subversive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252087402
• ISBN13: 9780252087400
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"