“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)
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