Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal

by Celeste Vaughan Curington

Laboring in the Shadow of Empire: Race, Gender, and Care Work in Portugal examines the everyday lives of an African-descendant care service workforce that labors in an ostensibly "anti-racial" Europe and against the backdrop of the Portuguese colonial empire. While much of the literature on global care work has focused on Asian and Latine migrant care workers, there is comparatively less research that explicitly examines African care workers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978827962
• ISBN13: 9781978827967
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher