Colonization and Domestic Service:
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Research Symposium

Symposium Papers

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 Aird, Michael 

‘Tactics of Survival: Aboriginal Women and Domestic Service.’

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 Ally, Shireen 

'Domesti/city: Racial Anxiety and Fantasy in the Figure of the “Maid”.’

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 Bizri, Fida

"Controlling the Intimate Intruder: Foreign Housemaids in the Middle East."

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 Chang, Grace

 ‘The Damayan Diaries: Filipina Domestic Workers Fighting Trafficking.’

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 Cox, Rosie 

'From our own backyard? Understanding UK au pair policy as colonial legacy and neo-colonial dream.'

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 Dickson-Waiko, Anne

‘Colonialism & Domestic Service in Australian New Guinea.’

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 Dussart, Fae

'Assault and abuse: the limits of acceptable behaviour.'

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 Fish, Jennifer

'Contemporary Constructions of the Global Domestic Worker in International Institutional Discourse.’

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 Glaser, Alana Lee 

'‘Maids’ and Moral Authority: The Domestic Worker Movement in Postcolonial New York City.'

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 Johnson, Michele

 ‘“Ah look aftah de child like is mine”: “Other/mothering” in Jamaican Domestic Service, 1920-1970.’

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 Kaur, Amarjit

 ‘The “Good” Housemaid: Indonesian Domestic Workers in Malaysia and Singapore.’

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 Leong-Salobir, Cecilia

'Cookie and Jungle-boy: servants in the colonial household in British North Borneo, Malaya and Singapore.'

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 Logan McCallum, Mary Jane 

 ‘“I Would Like The Girls At Home”: Domestic Labour and the Age of Discharge at Canadian Indian Residential Schools.’

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 Macdonald, Charlotte 

‘Decolonisation and Domestic Work: a recipe for modernisation?’

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 McCabe, Jane 

'Settling in, From Within: Anglo-Indian Lady-Helps in 1920s New Zealand'

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 Nilan, Pam

'Themes of colonial domestic service in cruise ship work: accounts from Bali.'

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 Parry, Naomi

"'In every case happy and bright": boarding out, child labour and apprenticeship in New South Wales, circa World War I.'

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 Platt, Maria 

 'Indonesian foreign domestic workers in Singapore: historical and contemporary reflections on the colonial politics of intimacy.'

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 Robinson, Shirleene 

‘“Always a good demand”: Aboriginal child domestic servants in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Australia.’

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