... affective labor domestic work households migrant domestic workers ...

... religious conversion Islamic ethical formation affective labor households domestic work ...

... food history culinary traditions restaurants domestic work asado ...

... Islam domestic work transnational migration Kuwait / Arabian Peninsula / Persian Gulf (Middle East) households ...

... together the Gulf region and South Asia. It also examines the gendered juridicopolitical aporias that characterize the transnational domestic work sector, aporias that place domestic workers into precarious juridicopolitical positions that further reinscribe their “temporariness” in the Gulf...

... transnational migration citizenship migrant workers domestic work sector Indian Ocean/ Kuwait / Arabian Peninsula / Persian Gulf ...

... This chapter examines how South Asian domestic workers’ experiences of migration in the Gulf are characterized by “suspension”—of their being a part of, yet apart from, their “work households” in the Gulf and their “family households” in South Asia. This chapter discusses how domestic workers...

... This chapter examines domestic workers’ housetalk: how their emergent practice of Islam develops through their relations and work within Kuwaiti households. Households constitute spaces of everyday activities and interactions through which domestic workers come to develop Islamic sensibilities...

... mamapreneur couponing working mothers resilience domestic labor ...

... This chapter is a conversation with a former member of the Bulgarian Women’s Committee who continues to be active with nongovernmental organizations in Bulgaria. It includes a detailed discussion of the domestic work of the Women’s Committee and the need for continuing activism. Bulgaria...

... education, the chapter interrogates both the intensification of mothering and paid domestic work. Using gig economy care work platforms like Care.com as an example, the chapter shows how domestic workers are increasingly called on to brand themselves and are treated as individual entrepreneurs. In doing so...

... at the outset. Here the everyday functions not just as a space of routine and continuity, but of contingency, emergent possibility, and ongoing conversion. Islam domestic work transnational migration Kuwait / Arabian Peninsula / Persian Gulf (Middle East) households ...