Messias D K
Family and Community Health Nursing and Women's Studies, University of South Carolina, College of Nursing, Columbia 29208, USA.
Women Health. 2001;33(1-2):1-20. doi: 10.1300/J013v33n01_02.
This article focuses on immigrant women's transnational experiences and perceptions of paid and unpaid domestic work. The dominance of work was an evident theme throughout the interviews with 26 Brazilian women who had been employed in domestic or food service work in the United States. Various intersections of gender, class, culture, and migration were evident in the women's changing definitions of work, measures of the quantity and quality of their paid and unpaid domestic work, and perceptions of their own fluid identities as Brazilian women, domestic workers, and immigrants. Through their daily lives and work experiences these immigrant women made concerted efforts to forge, maintain, or recreate contacts and connections with values and perspectives from both Brazilian and U.S. society. In the process they created dynamic transnational understandings and perspectives on women's domestic work.
本文聚焦于移民女性的跨国经历以及她们对有偿和无偿家务劳动的看法。在对26名曾在美国从事家务或食品服务工作的巴西女性的访谈中，工作的主导地位是一个明显的主题。性别、阶级、文化和移民的各种交叉点在这些女性对工作的不断变化的定义、她们有偿和无偿家务劳动的数量和质量衡量标准以及她们作为巴西女性、家政工人和移民的流动身份认知中都很明显。通过她们的日常生活和工作经历，这些移民女性齐心协力，与巴西和美国社会的价值观和观点建立、维持或重新建立联系。在此过程中，她们对女性家务劳动形成了动态的跨国理解和观点。
