Exchanging affect: The migrant domestic workers market in Turkey
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Title
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Exchanging affect: The migrant domestic workers market in Turkey
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:9afc1857611c:10136
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identifier
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10335
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Creator
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Akalin, Ayse,
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Contributor
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Patricia Clough
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Date
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2009
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Labor relations | Womens studies | Ethnic studies | Affect | Domestic Work | Postsoviet | Transnationalism | Turkey
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Abstract
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Since the second half of 1990's, Turkey has received a migration flow of women from the postsocialist countries of Eastern Europe, the Caucuses and Central Asia, into the domestic work sector. The demand for the migrant domestics is mainly for their live-in services, which also distinguishes them from the indigenous domestics since the latter prefer working strictly as live-outs. The migrants' willingness to work as live-in's has consequently caused them to be employed in three subfields of domestic work; care giving for the elderly, care giving for children and housekeeping in suburban houses. This research explores the emergence and expansion of "the migrant domestic workers market" as an ethnic niche in Turkey in the postsocialist period when migration and employment relations have formed a mutually fostering alliance. It argues that the migrant domestics of postsocialist origin are not demanded for an inherent ability. Rather the demand for their labor is a consequence of a capacity that they acquire by turning into transnational migrants. In this process, their subjectivity that was earlier shaped by an upbringing in a formerly socialist system also gets molded by a state of "migrancy". The latter then causes them to serve their employers in a distinct way that is characterized by a specific type of labor, which in this research is called "availability".
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Sociology
