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Multiple modes of care: internet and migrant caregiver networks in Israel
Author(s) -
BROWN RACHEL H.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
global networks
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.685
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1471-0374
pISSN - 1470-2266
DOI - 10.1111/glob.12112
Subject(s) - contest , solidarity , the internet , coping (psychology) , power (physics) , sociology , information and communications technology , political science , psychology , law , politics , physics , quantum mechanics , psychiatry , world wide web , computer science
Abstract In this article, I explore how migrant caregivers in Israel/Palestine use internet communication technology (ICT) to contest and navigate the gendered and racialized naturalization of their work and social and legal discrimination. I argue that, within the asymmetrical migrant caregiver/citizen–employer relationship, caregivers use ICT as a coping mechanism, for self‐expression, to fortify relationships of support with family and friends and to strengthen networks of community solidarity and activism. I conclude by suggesting how each of these strategies and daily modes of contestation can be seen as a ‘diagnostic of power’ that reveals the multiple forms that structural violence against migrants can take.