“An important intervention that critically engages decolonial and migration studies to illustrate the liminal positioning of migrant caregivers in Palestine/Israel as simultaneously aliens and intimate workers and identifies the physical and affective tolls of this labor.” - Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, author of (Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States) “Rachel H. Brown’s central argument that there is a necessary relation between the presence of migrant care workers focused on eldercare in contemporary Palestine/Israel and settler colonialism and neoliberalism is both timely and important. This exciting book provides a robust and compelling discussion of migrant care workers’ laboring and position as we consider the ongoing Palestine/Israel conflict.” - Attiya Ahmad, author of (Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait)

In Unsettled Labors, Rachel H. Brown explores the overlooked labor of migrant workers in Israel’s eldercare industry. Brown argues that live-in eldercare in Palestine/Israel, which is primarily done by migrant workers, is an often invisible area where settler colonialism is reproduced culturally, economically, and biologically. Situating Israeli labor markets within a longer history of imperialism and dispossession of Palestinian land, Brown positions migrant eldercare within the resulting tangle of Israeli laws, policies, and social discourses. She draws from interviews with caretakers, public statements, court documents, and first-hand fieldwork to uncover the inherently contradictory nature of elder care work: the intimate presence of South and Southeast Asian workers in the home unsettles the idea of the Israeli home as an exclusively Jewish space. By paying close attention to the comparative racialization of migrant workers, Palestinians, asylum seekers, and Mizrahi and Ashkenazi settlers, Brown raises important questions of labor, social reproduction, displacement, and citizenship told through the stories of collective care provided by migrant workers in a settler colonial state.
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Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction  1
1. The Coloniality of Israel’s Reproductive Regime  31
2. Intimacy, Alienation, and Affective Automation  63
3. Reproducing the Settler Home  101
4. Household Resistance and National Love  139
5. Collective Care and the Politics of Visibility  176
Epilogue  210
Notes  219
Bibliography  259
Index  301
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ISBN
9781478026358
Publisert
2024-08-02
Utgiver
Duke University Press
Vekt
572 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
328

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Biografisk notat

Rachel H. Brown is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis.