Em casas distantes de casa. Desigualdades e melhoria de vida entre as brasileiras do ramo da limpeza doméstica na região de São Francisco, Califórnia (EUA)

• Autor(a) principal: Freitas, Jefferson Belarmino de
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15449
• topic: Housecleaning; Inequalities; Life Improvement; Gender; Class; Race; Transnationality; Limpeza Doméstica; Desigualdades; Melhoria de Vida; Gênero; Classe; Raça; Transnacionalidade; Empregados domésticos; Desigualdades sociais; Relações raciais; Sociologia; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA

In this dissertation, I seek to understand how female Brazilian immigrants (and some male Brazilian immigrants) that work in the housecleaning sector in the San Francisco Bay Area, California (USA), connect notions of inequality with perceptions about life improvement. I stress out that they organize their daily lives as workers moved by the rule, historically and institutionally validated, according to which white people do not clean houses . This rule is maintained by the structural inequalities that are the most active in the operation of the housecleaning sector: the inequalities of gender, race and class. I propose that the workers analyze each one of these inequalities from a transnational perspective. That means that their decision-making process takes into account two national states, the Brazilian and the USA one. Thus, to the housecleaners, the real weight of the mentioned categories, which they see as more or less advantageous depending on how they can make them work in their favor, is inseparable from the meanings of the same categories in the Brazilian society. In this comparative game, the Brazilian inequalities sometimes intensify the workers sensation of success. In fact, these workers tend to conclude that they are improving their lives as they find ways to be unleashed from the weight of the structural inequalities that the housecleaning sector in San Francisco accumulate. Not less important, following the rule according to which white people do not clean houses makes the Brazilian immigrants build their worldviews and market strategies in a direct competition with others groups of color