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CCIG Keynote Lecture - Prof Arlie Hoschchild - ‘Global Traffic, Female Services and Emotional Life: the case of Nannies and Surrogates’

Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 12:00 - 16:30

The Open University in London, Room 2B+C, 1-11 Hawley Crescent, Camden Town, London, NW1 8NP
Map & directions: http://www3.open.ac.uk/contact/maps.aspx?contactid=1

CCIG Families & Relationships Research Group led by Professor Elizabeth Silva and Dr Jacqui Gabb are hosting this keynote lecture given by Professor Arlie Hoschchild.

The workshop for PG Students and Early Career Researchers will be held from 12:00-13:00 followed by lunch. The keynote lecture is open to all commencing at 14:30 with tea and coffee available at 14:15.

Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance, Families and Relationships Research Programme

WORKSHOP AND SEMINAR 5 APRIL 2011, 12:00-16:30

GLOBAL TRAFFIC, FEMALE SERVICES AND EMOTIONAL LIFE: THE CASE OF NANNIES AND SURROGATES

Arlie Hochschild, University of California, Berkeley, USA

12.00-13:00     WORKSHOP for Postgraduate Students and Early Career Researchers (by invitation only, please apply
                          asap) led by Professor Arlie Hochschild and Professor Elizabeth Silva (followed by lunch)

14:15                Tea/Coffee
 
14:30 -16:30    LECTURE by Professor Arlie Hochschild and discussion: (open to all, but register in advance, please)
 

ABSTRACT

Increasingly, female care workers from the 2nd and 3rd worlds migrate to the 1st world in search of clients. At the same time, increasing numbers of 1st world clients travel – as medical tourists and retirees - to female service providers in the 3rd world. A comparison is made of Filipinas who leave their families to care for the children and elderly of the 1st world with Indian surrogate mothers who bear children in India for clients in the 1st world. Both do emotional labor – in order to attach themselves to (nannies) and detach themselves from (surrogates) the 1st world children in their care. Both pursue financial strategies that appear ‘free’.  But they choose their strategies in the absence of help from state or community, and as pawns on a vast   global – and neoliberal --chessboard not of their choosing. 

BIOGRAPHY

Arlie Hochschild is Full Professor of the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley 

Her work encourages us to think creatively about how we make sense of and experience public-private interactions. She draws on sociological thinking (such as Goffman and Sennett) to interrogate how socio-cultural changes have shaped the ways that people make and sustain relationships, while never losing sight of how we do emotion work in everyday lives. Over the past 30 years, her work has situated emotions and rules of feeling at the literal and metaphorical heart of the sociology of relationships and family studies.

Registration

For those wishing to attend please contact Sarah Batt, Research Secretary, CCIG, The Open University,
mailto:SocSci-CCIG-Events@open.ac.uk Tel: +44(0)1908 654704.

When confirming your attendance please could ensure clearly confirm which elements you would like to attend.

Event organised by Jacqui Gabb and Elizabeth Silva (CCIG and Convenors of British Sociological Association Study Group on Families and Relationships).

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