Childcare Workers Global Migration and Digital Media

This book explores the transnational mobility everyday life and digital media use of childcare workers living and working abroad. Focusing specifically on Filipina Indonesian and Sri Lankan nannies in Europe it offers insights as to the causes and implications of womenâs mobility using data drawn from ethnographic research examining transnational migration work experiences family and relationships. While drawing attention to the hidden largely invisible and marginalized lives of these women this research reveals the ways in which digital media especially the use of mobile phones and the Internet empower them but also continue to reinforce existing power relations and inequalities. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives from media and communications sociology cultural studies and anthropology the book combines theoretical perspectives with grounded case studies. . Language: English