Eileen Boris is Hull Professor of Feminist Studies and Professor of History, Black Studies, and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She writes on the home as a workplace and the racialised gendered state. She is the author, with Jennifer Klein, of Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State. Her latest book is Making the Woman Worker: Precarious Labor and the Fight for Global Standards, 1919-2019 (Oxford). She tweets @eileen_boris.
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Published in: Migrant FuturesMigrant domestic and care workers: high risk but low protectionDespite the challenges, domestic and care workers are seizing the moment to build power and create a more caring society.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBeyond ‘maids and madams’: can employers be allies in new policies for domestic workers’ rights?Workers have led significant campaigns the fight for domestic workers rights. But what about employers? How can they...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWorkers, not slaves: domestic labourers against the lawThe global non-recognition of domestic and care workers in law and social policy intensifies their exploitation....