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“And Ain’T I A Woman?”: Feminism, Immigrant Caregivers, And New Frontiers For Equality, Shirley Lin Esq. Jan 2016

“And Ain’T I A Woman?”: Feminism, Immigrant Caregivers, And New Frontiers For Equality, Shirley Lin Esq.

Shirley Lin Esq.

Part I draws from a body of feminist political and social science theories regarding social reproduction to assess the situation of immigrant domestic workers and their recent efforts to claim inclusion in workplace laws and protections. It locates the increasingly carceral dynamics that are expressed in the law and in state infrastructure that continually undermine immigrant women’s economic and social stability. Part II examines the importance of immigrant women workers in the United States and their disproportionate share in the “feminization” of low-wage work at a time when society’s critical social-reproductive work has been shifted to them. Part III analyzes …


Compassion And Critique, Angela Harris Dec 2010

Compassion And Critique, Angela Harris

Angela P Harris

This piece will appear in a symposium organized by Anthony Paul Farley on Marxism and race, in the Columbia Journal of Race and Law.


Subject Unrest, Angela Harris, Frank Valdes, Jerome Culp Dec 2002

Subject Unrest, Angela Harris, Frank Valdes, Jerome Culp

Angela P Harris

No abstract provided.