"Gutierrez-Rodriguez explores the precarious work lives and struggles for
rights and respect of Latin American women employed as domestic workers
in Europe. Her theorization of affective relations between housewives and
domestic workers and the continuing coloniality of power within transculturation
and translation processes make this book a pathbreaking contribution
to migration research, and feminist studies."
- Nina Glick Schiller, Director Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Culture and
Professor of Anthropology, University of Manchester

Domestic and care work in private households is now the largest employment
sector for migrant women. This book sheds light on these households
through its focus on the interpersonal relationships between Latin American
“undocumented migrant” domestic workers and employers in Austria, Germany,
Spain and the UK. The personal experiences of these women form the
basis for Gutiérrez‐Rodríguez’s decolonial analysis of the feminization of labor
in private households and cultural analysis of domestic work as affective labor.
This book will be a necessary voice in the debates on citizenship, cosmopolitanism,
and migrant workers’ rights.