Making maids: United States immigration policy and immigrant domestic workers

Gender, Migration and Domestic Service

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 61-78

  Mattingly, Doreen ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84909054177     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203452509     Document Type: Chapter

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