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Kristen Maher
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TITLE:
Professor
DEPARTMENT:
Political Science
OVERVIEW:
The complex positions international labor migrants occupy in relation to state policies, economic forces, and social attitudes, labor market for foreign domestic workers, popular ambivalence about race and immigration in the suburbs where foreign workers are employed, border politics.

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"The Dual Discourse about Peruvian Domestic Workers in Santiago de Chile: Class, Gender, and a Nationalist Project." Forthcoming in Latin American Politics and Society. With Silke Staab.

"Nanny Politics: The Dilemmas of Working Women's Empowerment in Santiago, Chile." International Feminist Journal of Politics, 7, 1 ( 2005): 71-88. With Silke Staab.

"Borders and Social Distinction in the Global Suburb." American Quarterly 56, 3 (2004): 781-806.

"Good Women 'Ready to Go': Labor Brokers and the Transnational Maid Trade." Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 1, 1 (2004): 59-80.

"Globalized Social Reproduction: Immigrant Service Workers and the Citizenship Gap," in People Out of Place, Alison Brysk and Gershon Shafir, eds. Routledge, 2004.

"'Natural Mothers' for Sale: The Construction of Latina Immigrant Identity in Domestic Service Labor Markets." In Immigrant Life in the U.S.: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives, Donna Gabbaccia and Colin Wayne Leach, eds. Routledge, 2004.

"Workers and Strangers: The Household Service Economy and the Landscape of Suburban Fear." Urban Affairs Review 38, 6 (2003): 751-786. Reprinted in Spanish in Renglones (No. 55, Oct-Dec 2003: 72-93), a Mexican journal on culture and politics.