Too Close for Comfort? ‘Race'and the Management of Proximity, Guilt and Other Anxieties in Paid Domestic Labour

Esther Bott

Sociological Research Online, 2005, vol. 10, issue 3, 152-158

Abstract: This paper examines relations between migrant domestic workers and their employers in London, and how employers use ideas about ‘race’ and racial difference to manage the difficulties and tensions involved in sharing their houses with employees. Using findings from preliminary interviews with employers (the initial phase of data gathering in a wider ongoing project), it looks at how employers might structure proximity/distance relations; levels of intimacy; social hierarchy and guilt management around a conceptual framework that hinges on notions of ‘difference’ and Otherness.

Keywords: Migrant Domestic Work; Racism; Employers’ Anxieties; Proximity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.5153/sro.1141

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