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The U.S. Au Pair Program: Labor Exploitation And The Myth Of Cultural Exchange, Janie Chuang
The U.S. Au Pair Program: Labor Exploitation And The Myth Of Cultural Exchange, Janie Chuang
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The Article exposes how the legal categorization of au pairs as “cultural exchange participants” is strategically used to sustain – and disguise – a government-created domestic worker program to provide flexible, in-home childcare for upper-middle-class families at below-market prices. The “cultural exchange” subterfuge has created an underclass of migrant domestic workers conceptually and structurally removed from the application of labor standards and the scrutiny of labor institutions. On the one hand, the “cultural exchange” rubric enables the U.S. government to house the program under the Department of State rather than Labor, and to delegate oversight of this government program to …
Two Parts Of The Landscape Of Family In America: Maintaining Both Spousal And Domestic Partner Employee Benefits For Both Same-Sex And Different-Sex Couples, Nancy Polikoff
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Bringing The Market To Students: School Choice And Vocational Education In The Twenty-First Century, Lia Epperson
Bringing The Market To Students: School Choice And Vocational Education In The Twenty-First Century, Lia Epperson
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