The New American Servitude: Political Belonging. Coe Hardcover<|

The New American ServitudePolitical Belonging Among African Immigrant Home Care Workers\nAuthor(s): Cati Coe\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479831012, 978-1479831012\nSynopsis\nFinalist, 2020 Elliott P. Skinner Award, given by the Association of Africanist Anthropology\n Examines why African care workers feel politically excluded from the United States \n Care for America's growing elderly population is increasingly provided by migrants, and the demand for health care labor is only expected to grow. Because of this health care crunch and the low barriers to entry, new African immigrants have adopted elder care as a niche employment sector, funneling their friends and relatives into this occupation. However, elder care puts care workers into racialized, gendered, and age hierarchies, making it difficult for them to achieve social and economic mobility. \n In The New American Servitude, Coe demons.