Women, globalization, migration, and work -- Ghana in the global political economy -- Ghanaian women and the international migration process -- The chance and choice of live-in caregiving -- The dynamics of live-in caregiving -- Organizing family from a distance -- Live in at what cost? -- Rethinking immigrant women's care work
Summary
This book documents the experiences of Ghanaian live-in caregivers and argues that they value care work on their own terms and not on American perceptions. The challenges of work in a different sociocultural context elicited responses from the women that challenged some long-held assumptions about immigrant women's care work
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 08, 2017)
