Fiona Williams

TL;DR: The authors argue for a political ethics of care to balance New Labour's current preoccupation with the ethic of paid work However, care as a practice invokes different experiences, meanings, contexts and multiple relations of power.

TL;DR: Gendering Citizenship in Western Europe: New challanges for citizenship research in a cross-national context as discussed by the authors, is a case study of the need for cross-cultural knowledge.

TL;DR: While the employment of migrant women as care workers in European welfare states is increasing, the rate, extent and nature of this increase vary The article draws on empirical research on migrant women as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: This paper argued that Filipinos living in Italy are perpetual foreigners, arguing that Filipina transnational households are similar to those of African American families who migrated from the southern to the northern United States, emphasizing how the formation and maintenance of a transnational family underscores the position of Filipinos as intimate foreigners.

TL;DR: The phenomenon of migrant workers finding domestic and care work in the homes and institutions of countries wealthier than their own uncovers much about social change in the twenty-first century as discussed by the authors.