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Disposable domestics : immigrant women workers in the global economy / by Chang, Grace,1964-(CARDINAL)844837;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Foreign workers, Asian; Foreign workers, Latin American; Women foreign workers; Women household employees;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The silver women : how Black women's labor made the Panama Canal / by Flores-Villalobos, Joan,author.(CARDINAL)861867;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The Panama Canal was realized as much through the exploitation of a racialized class of workers as it was by American ingenuity. What is less visible, and less understood, is the project's dependence on the domestic and care labor of Black migrant women, who were paid in silver rather than the gold that white workers received. The Silver Women shifts the focus of this monumental endeavor to the West Indian women who travelled to Panama, inviting readers to place women's intimate lives, choices, grief, and ambition at the center of the economic and geopolitical transformation created by the construction of the Panama Canal and U.S. imperial expansion. The Silver Women argues that Black West Indian women made the canal construction possible by providing the indispensable everyday labor of social reproduction. West Indian women built a provisioning economy that fed, housed, and cared for the segregated Black West Indian labor force, in effect subsidizing the construction effort and its racial calculus. But while also subject to racial discrimination and segregation, West Indian women mostly worked outside the umbrella of U.S. canal authorities. They did not hold contracts and had little access to official services and wages. From this position, they found ways to skirt, and at times subvert, the legal, moral, and economic parameters imperial authorities sought to impose on the racialized migrant workforce. West Indian women developed important strategies of claims-making, kinship, community building, and market adaptation that helped them navigate the contradictions and violence of U.S. empire. In the meantime, these strategies of social reproduction nurtured further West Indian migrations, linking Panama to places like Harlem and Santiago de Cuba. The book is thus a history of Black West Indian women's labor of social reproduction as integral to U.S. imperial infrastructure, the global Caribbean diaspora, and women's own survival"--
Subjects: Foreign workers, West Indian; Women foreign workers; Women, Black; West Indians;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Songbirds [large print] / by Lefteri, Christy,1980-author.(CARDINAL)785361;
"Living on the island of Cyprus, Nisha is far from her native Sri Lanka. Though she longs to return home, she knows that working as a nanny and maid for a wealthy widow is the only way to earn enough to support her daughter, left behind to be raised by relatives. Yiannis is a poacher, trapping the tiny protected songbirds that stop in Cyprus as they migrate each year from Africa to Europe and selling them on the illegal market. He dreams of finding a new way of life, and of marrying Nisha. But one night, Nisha makes dinner, an aromatic dahl curry, for the family who pays her: Petra and her daughter Aliki. Then, after she cleans the kitchen and tucks Aliki into bed, Nisha goes out on a mysterious errand, and vanishes. When the police refuse to pursue the case, Petra takes on the investigation herself, a path that leads her to Nisha's friends--other workers in the neighborhood--and to the darker side of a migrant's life, where impossible choices leave them vulnerable, captive, and worse. Inspired by the real-life disappearance of domestic workers in Cyprus, Christy Lefteri has crafted a poignant, deeply empathetic narrative of the human stories behind the headlines. With infinite tenderness and skill, Songbirds offers a triumphant story of the fight for truth and justice, and of women reclaiming their lost voices"--
Subjects: Large print books.; Domestic fiction.; Social problem fiction.; Nannies; Women household employees; Foreign workers; Missing persons;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 13
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Songbirds : a novel / by Lefteri, Christy,1980-author.(CARDINAL)785361;
"From the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, a stunning novel about the disappearance of a Sri Lankan nanny and how the most vulnerable people find their voices. "It began with a crunch of leaves and earth. So early, so cold, the branches shone with ice. I'd returned to collect the songbirds. They are worth more than their weight in gold." Yiannis is a poacher, trapping the tiny protected songbirds that stop in Cyprus as they migrate each year from Africa to Europe and selling them on the black market. He dreams of finding a new way of life, and of marrying Nisha, who works on the island as a nanny and maid--having left her native Sri Lanka to try to earn enough to support her daughter, left behind and raised by relatives. But Nisha has vanished; one evening, she steps out on a mysterious errand and doesn't return. The police write off her disappearance as just another runaway domestic worker, so her employer, Petra, undertakes the investigation. Petra's unraveling of Nisha's last days in Cyprus lead her to Nisha's friends--other maids in the neighborhood--and to the darker side of a migrant's life, where impossible choices leave them vulnerable, captive, and worse. Based on the real-life disappearance of domestic workers in Cyprus, Christy Lefteri has crafted a poignant, deeply empathetic narrative of the human stories behind the headlines. With infinite tenderness and skill, Songbirds offers a triumphant story of the fight for truth and justice, and of women reclaiming their lost voices"--
Subjects: Novels.; Nannies; Women household employees; Foreign workers; Missing persons;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 16
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Optional practical training : a novel / by Sunder, Shubha,1982-author.;
In 2006, Pavitra, a young Indian woman, is in the United States doing her extra 12 months of work experience--Optional Practical Training--following her graduation. She takes a position as a math and physics teacher at a private high school, but what she really wants is to break from her family's expectations and finish writing a novel. Through her encounters with her landlord, colleagues, students, parents of her students, and others, Pavitra finds each has their own expectations of her, too, and they shape her understanding of race, immigration, privilege, and herself.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Bildungsromans.; Novels.; Romans.; Women, East Indian; Foreign workers; High school teachers; Authors;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Bārān [videorecording] by Abedini, Hossein.; Bahrāmī, Zahrā.; Majīdī, Majīd,1959-; Nahas, Fouad.; Naji, Mohammed Amir.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)(CARDINAL)340297; Miramax Films.(CARDINAL)436238; Miramax Home Entertainment (Firm);
Director of photography, Mohammad Davudi ; editor, Hassan Hassandoost ; music, Ahmad Pejman.Mohammad Amir Naji, Hossein Abedini, Zahra Bahrami, Hossein Rahmi, Hossein Mahjoob.The story of illegal Afghan immigrants living and working at a construction site in Tehran, Iran. When one of the workers is injured, his daughter, posing as a man, becomes the breadwinner. But a hot-headed 17 year-old local youth also working at the site discovers the secret.MPAA rating: PG.DVD, widescreen (1.85:1).Best foreign language film of 1999 at the Montreal Film Festival.
Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Afghans; Construction workers; False personation; Man-woman relationships; Women foreign workers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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In a day's work : the fight to end sexual violence against America's most vulnerable workers [sound recording] / by Yeung, Bernice,author.(CARDINAL)803486; Douglass, Jean Ann,narrator.;
Read by Jean Ann Douglass.The searing expose about the hidden stories of female immigrant workers overlooked by the #MeToo movement will change the understanding of their lives and struggles.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Sexual harassment; Women foreign workers; Women immigrants; Sexual abuse victims; Sex crimes; Violence in the workplace;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Femmes du 6ème étage [videorecording] /= The women on the 6th floor / by Kiberlain, Sandrine.; Larrieu, Jean-Claude,1943-; Le Guay, Philippe,1956-; Luchini, Fabrice,1948-; Luchini, Fabrice,1951-; Maura, Carmen,1945-; Rousselet, Philippe.; Tonnerre, Jérôme.; Verbeke, Natalia,1975-; France 2 cinéma (Firm)(CARDINAL)332228; SND (Firm : Neuilly-sur-Seine, France); Strand Releasing (Firm); Vendome production (Firm); Vendome Production (Firm);
MARCIVE 6/1/12Cinematographer, Jean-Claude Larrieu ; editor, Monica Coleman ; music, Jorge Arriagada.Carmen Maura, Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain, Natalia Verbeke, Lola Dueñas, Berta Ojea, Nuria Sole, Concho Galán.Paris, 1960. Jean-Louis lives a bourgeois existence with his neurotic socialite wife Suzanne while their children are away at boarding school. The couple's world is turned upside down when they hire Maria, a Spanish maid who introduces Jean-Louis to an alternative reality a few stories up on the sixth floor. Befriending a group of sassy Spanish maids, the women teach him there's more to life than stocks and bonds, and their influence on the house ultimately transforms everyone's life.MPAA rating: Not rated.DVD, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 or 2.0.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Conservatives; Foreign workers, Spanish; Working class women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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In a day's work : the fight to end sexual violence against America's most vulnerable workers / by Yeung, Bernice,author.(CARDINAL)803486;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index.Introduction: the weight of silence -- Finding the most invisible cases -- The open secret -- Behind closed doors and without a safety net -- When only the police and the prosecutor believe you -- All that we already know -- The ways forward -- ¡S©Ư se pudo! Yes we did! -- Epilogue: "I survived".
Subjects: Sex crimes; Sexual abuse victims; Sexual harassment; Violence in the workplace; Women foreign workers; Women immigrants; Sexual harassment.; Sexual violence.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Cari Mora / by Harris, Thomas,1940-author.(CARDINAL)519602; Torre, Jesús de la(Translator),translator.;
Hannibal Lecter tiene un sucesor. Tras más de una década, el autor de El silencio de los corderos vuelve con un thriller arrollador. Bajo una antigua mansión de Pablo Escobar en la costa de Miami se ocultan veinticinco millones de dólares en oro. Un grupo de hombres sin escrúpulos lleva años buscándolos. Su líder es Hans-Peter Schneider, quien, impulsado por inconfesables apetitos, se gana la vida haciendo realidad las crueles fantasías de ricos y poderosos. Cari Mora escapó de la violencia de su Colombia natal y el cuidado de la mansión es ahora uno de sus variados trabajos. En cuanto pone sus ojos en Cari, Hans-Peter se encapricha de ella. Pero Cari Mora es una superviviente. Y no es la primera vez que tiene que luchar para demostrarlo. Ningún otro escritor ha conjurado los monstruos que nos acechan con la brillantez de Thomas Harris. El maestro del thriller americano regresa tras más de una década con una historia sobre el mal, la avaricia y las consecuencias de una oscura obsesión.
Subjects: Gangster fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Treasure troves; Women foreign workers; Torture; Cremation; Organ trafficking; Tesoros ocultos;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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