Abstract
This article explores the positioning of expatriate employers vis-à-vis their domestic workers. It is based on 28 semi-structured interviews and has an auto-ethnographic component. It characterizes the expatriates’ experiences in different situations: finding themselves in a dominant social position and becoming employers; living with full-time staff in a foreign country; fitting into hierarchical relationships; and being confronted to their employees’ poverty and “misfortunes.” While maternalism predominates, the positioning of expatriate employers is constructed by combining it with liberal, racist, and solidarity models.
| Translated title of the contribution | Expatriates vis-a-vis their domestic workers in Pondicherry (India). : Between maternalism, liberalism, racism and solidarity |
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| Original language | French |
| Pages (from-to) | 121-149 |
| Number of pages | 29 |
| Journal | Revue internationale d'etudes du développement |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 246 |
| Publication status | Published - 15 Sept 2021 |
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- Domestic Workers
- Expatriates
- maternalism
- racism