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

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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.

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  • Esther Bott, 2005. "Too Close for Comfort? ‘Race'and the Management of Proximity, Guilt and Other Anxieties in Paid Domestic Labour," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 10(3), pages 152-158, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:10:y:2005:i:3:p:152-158
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.1141
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    1. Theys, Tobias & Adriaenssens, Stef & Verhaest, Dieter & Deschacht, Nick & Rousseau, Sandra, 2020. "Disentangling language from ethnic preferences in the recruitment of domestic workers: A discrete choice experiment," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 117(C), pages 144-151.

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