... Chapter 2 investigates how the dissident work practices of migrant domestic workers can be understood as deploying hidden tactics vis-à-vis their employers to appropriate the political script of liberal citizenship. It argues that these accounts of creative resistance are absent in the recent...

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

... This chapter examines the assemblage of processes, policies, and systems of governance that designate and discipline South Asian migrant domestic workers into a “temporary population” in Kuwait. This assemblage positions domestic workers as dual agents of reproduction: tasked with the everyday...

... migrant domestic workers ...

... The epilogue reprises the major themes of the book, namely, how South Asian migrant domestic workers’ everyday conversions in Kuwait mark the confluence of affective labor, Islamic ethical practice, and discourses of South Asian women’s malleability—all of which reshape their subjectivities...

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

...Episodes Chapter 2 investigates how the dissident work practices of migrant domestic workers can be understood as deploying hidden tactics vis-à-vis their employers to appropriate the political script of liberal citizenship. It argues that these accounts of creative resistance are absent...

... This chapter presents the phenomenon of South Asian migrant domestic workers’ Islamic conversion in the Gulf region, the major explanations often given to account for them, and the alternative explanation of “everyday conversions” discussed in the book. Understanding the circumstances through...

... not to make apparent when visiting and adjusting back to their families and communities in South Asia. subjectivity affective labor transnational domestic workers South Asia gender ...

..., Mizrahi, and South and Southeast Asian workers. I suggest how worker and citizen narratives, Israeli laws, and private recruitment agencies comparatively gender and racialize migrant caregivers. I highlight throughout how the treatment of elderly Jewish Israelis as the paragon of vulnerability parallels...

... 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...

... To learn more about Islam, many domestic workers obtain learning materials and take classes at Kuwait’s Islamic da’wa movement’s women’s center. Taught in their first languages, by teachers of similar ethnonational backgrounds, these classes effectively reproduce domestic workers’ ethnonational...

... subjectivity affective labor transnational domestic workers South Asia gender ...

... everyday religious conversion transnational migration domestic workers stories/narratives ...

... and a clientele that ranged from meat workers to sex workers. Resonant with the poet’s own nostalgia for his homeland, the voice reflects not the migrant’s dream of the future, but her dream of what she has left behind. In the 1990s, property values in the eastern lowlands, especially Santa Cruz, began...

... In the late twentieth century, domestic and foreign migration accelerated dramatically. The urban population increased from 26 percent in 1950 to 62 percent in 2001, spurred in large part by migration stemming from the midcentury revolution and, later, neoliberal restructuring. Emigration...

... and colloquial lyrics, the typical Sunday off enjoyed by many domestic workers in La Paz. Parks and promenades along central avenues are some of the public spaces occupied especially by younger working women of Aymara descent who dress up in their finery for this urban outing. After an arduous week of labor...