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- Title
Labour Pains: "Nannygate," Undocumented Workers and the Social Cost of Mothering in Contemporary Cultural Texts.
- Authors
Roy, Modhumita
- Abstract
The article focuses on the U.S.'1965 Immigration and Nationality Act removed national origin quotas among skilled and unskilled workers in occupations where labour has short supply. It cites the question of Ama Ata Aidoo on immigration which asks people to look deeper at the factors that makes migration inevitable. It mentions Zoe Baird, who seek to privatized childcare and Josephine Perera, who is the subject of the documentary film "When Mother Comes Home for Christmas."
- Subjects
UNITED States; IMMIGRATION law; LABOR supply; AIDOO, Ama Ata, 1942-2023; BAIRD, Zoe; PERERA, Josephine; WHEN Mother Comes Home for Christmas (Film)
- Publication
Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research & Community Involvement, 2012, Vol 3, Issue 1, p182
- ISSN
1923-4139
- Publication type
Article