The dual discourse about Peruvian domestic workers in Santiago de Chile: Class, race, and a nationalist project

Latin American Politics and Society

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 87-116

  Staab, Silke ^a   Maher, Kristen Hill ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS; DOMESTIC WORK; NATIONAL IDENTITY; RACE;

CHILE; METROPOLITANA; SANTIAGO [METROPOLITANA]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33244492658     PISSN: 1531426X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-2456.2006.tb00339.x     Document Type: Article

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