Aid and the Help: International Development and the Transnational Extraction of Care

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Dinah Hannaford

Aid and the Help

International Development and the Transnational Extraction of Care

Dinah Hannaford

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Stanford University Press
24 May 2023

Development studies; Migration, immigration & emigration; Development economics

Series: Globalization in Everyday Life

"Hiring domestic workers is a routine part of the expat development lifestyle. Whether working for the United Nations, governmental aid agencies, or NGOs such as Oxfam, Save the Children, or World Vision, expatriate aid workers in the developing world employ maids, nannies, security guards, gardeners and chauffeurs. Though nearly every expat aid worker in the developing world has local people working within the intimate sphere of their homes, these relationships are seldom, if ever, discussed in analyses of the development paradigm and its praxis. Aid and the Help addresses this major lacuna through an ethnographic analysis of the intersection of development work and domestic work. Examining the reproductive labor cheaply purchased by aid workers posted overseas opens the opportunity to assess the multiple ways that the ostensibly ""giving"" industry of development can be an extractive industry as well."

By: Dinah Hannaford
Imprint: Stanford University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9781503635500
ISBN 10: 1503635503
Series: Globalization in Everyday Life
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 24 May 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dinah Hannaford is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Houston. She is the author of Marriage Without Borders: Transnational Spouses in Neoliberal Senegal (2017).

Reviews for Aid and the Help: International Development and the Transnational Extraction of Care

"""A significant contribution to our understanding of the global politics of care, this book describes the moral dilemmas, social boundaries, and hierarchies that aid workers create to resolve the contradictions in their management of domestic help. This is a must read for those interested in gender, globalization, development and the work of women in the Global South.""—Rhacel Parreñas, University of Southern California ""This timely and important book is a welcome contribution to the scholarship on the global contours of reproductive and domestic labor. Aid and the Help frames women as both employers and employees, having to sort out the global tensions situating their interactions in the intimate, invisible zone of the home.""—Carla Jones, University of Colorado, Boulder"