Sabrina Marchetti, Ph.D (2010), Utrecht University, is currently Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. She works on issues of gender, migration and labour.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Keywords1. Postcoloniality 2. Black Europe3. Memory and identity4. Intersectionality5. Body work6. Home7. Tactics2. DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES IN HISTORYSuriname1. Colonialism and slavery2. The Independence3. Moving from Suriname to the Netherlands4. Migration and racism in the Netherlands5. Living in Rotterdam6. Afro-Surinamese women in the Dutch care sectorEritrea1. Eritrea’s history and Italian colonialism2. Towards the Independence3. Eritrean migration to Italy4. Migration and racism in Italy5. Eritreans in Rome6. Eritrean women in the Italian domestic sectorPART I – POSTCOLONIAL MIGRANTS3. Colonial Acculturation and Belonging1. Black Dutch2. The ‘ambivalence’ of bonds3. The case of school education4. Paramaribo and Asmara as ‘Culture-Contact Zones’1. Separation and survival of domestic slavery2. A hierarchical cultural contamination3. Spatial propinquity and cultures4. Hierarchies within ‘familiarity’5. The case of mass and popular culture5. Postcolonial Encounters: Arriving in Italy and the Netherlands 1. Class and belonging after the migration2. Asymmetries of recognition3. The legacy of slaveryPART II – MIGRANT DOMESTIC LABOUR 6. A Labour Niche for Postcolonial Migrant1. Niche formation and coloniality of power2. Substitution across class and ‘race’/ethnicity3. Religious figure and employment4. The ‘good’ job5. Agencies and ‘ethnic’ representations7. Narratives and Practices of Work and Identity 1. Everyday (domestic) practices and identity2. Rhythms and gestures of care3. Self-identification between care, cleaning and servitude4. Time, body and enactment of power8. ‘Ethnicisation’ of Care and Domestic Skills1. ‘Ethnicisation’ and the right personality2. Subservience as a skill3. Familiarity with domestic work as a social position4. Troubling reversals of hierarchies5. The ambivalence of a caring personality6. The case of food and cooking9. Racism at Work, Under Colonial Legacies1. Racism, ressentiment and slavery2. Home care as a ‘scenario of racism’3. Spatial confinement 4. Bodies: wearing inferiority5. Re-enacting colonial timesConclusionsAppendicesI - Notes on the fieldworkII – Notes on the intervieweesBibliographyIndex