Constituting Immigrant Care Workers Through Gendering and Racialising Practices in Education

Abstract

The focus of this paper is to examine how immigrants become constituted as ideal care workers in educational settings. By analysing the everyday practices in two educational contexts in the Helsinki metropolitan area, Finland, the authors explore how these practices that are influenced by the national and transnational immigration and integration policy, regardless of their well-meant actions, can gender and racialise students with immigrant status.

Keywords

• immigration
• care work
• subjectification
• resistance
• finland