{"product_id":"the-experiences-of-ghanaian-livein-caregivers-in-the-united-states-9781498564458","title":"The Experiences of Ghanaian Livein Caregivers in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing the convergence of the impact of globalization and political turmoil in Ghana on Ghanaian women as a backdrop, this book examines the migration of the women to the US and their decisions to care for upper middle class white seniors who elected to stay in their homes to be cared for by private caregivers. The book explores the attraction of domestic care work, the women's perceptions of their job, their relationships with their clients, and the dynamics of their relationships with their immediate families and families left behind in Ghana. It also analyzes the women's interactions with the immigrant community from their remote work sites. The book examines widely-held beliefs about domestic work as undervalued, under-remunerated, and relegated to marginalized immigrant women of color. While admitting that these problems exist, the women whose stories are told in the book did not believe that their brand of care work, which they called private practice, was undervalued or underpaid\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book makes an extremely important and original contribution to the literature on globalization of domestic work, to the emerging literature on the care economy which is dominated by transnational immigrant women who enter private live-in care arrangements with clients, and more generally, to the study of women in the domestic work industry as well as the local and global forces that explain why an increasing number of women from the global South seek economic opportunities in the global North. The study’s central concern – the lived experiences of Ghanaian live-in caregivers – breaks new ground. To the best of my knowledge, it is the first text that seeks to place the experiences of Ghanaian women in the U.S. squarely within the burgeoning literature on the care economy. This is long overdue given the rapidly expanding involvement of Ghanaian and African women in live-in care in the U.S., an area of increasing importance in an aging economy. This book gives visibility and voice to a group that is seldom seen and rarely heard through rich research details and histories of individual live-in caregivers. -- Darko Opoku, Oberlin College\u003cbr\u003eThis work is a vivid exposition of the realities and experiences Ghanaian women immigrants encounter in domestic care work. It's an emerging trend requiring reading and understanding by gender activists, teachers, students, and practitioners in care work and public health. -- Clara Ohenewa Benneh, University of Ghana\u003cbr\u003eDr. Donkor has shown a light on a hidden part of the immigrant story that complicates our understanding of class and social status as it relates to domestic work in the U.S. She has expanded our knowledge of paid care-giving, and given us a new —and surprising— layer to a story about race and gender and class and globalization, this one not quite so heavily laden with exploitation and undervalued labor.​ -- Joan Woolfrey, West Chester University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Women, Globalization, Migration, and Work  Chapter 2: Ghana in the Global Political Economy  Chapter 3: Ghanaian Women and the International Migration Process  Chapter 4: The Chance and Choice of Live-in Caregiving  Chapter 5: The Dynamics of Live-in Caregiving  Chapter 6: Organizing Family from a Distance  Chapter 7: Live in at what Cost?  Chapter 8: Rethinking Immigrant Women’s Care Work","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040790839639,"sku":"9781498564458","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498564458.jpg?v=1750947854","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-experiences-of-ghanaian-livein-caregivers-in-the-united-states-9781498564458","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}