Intersections

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Science, Society & Culture

4.4 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Intersections - Laurie Taylor talks to world-renowned, Black feminist scholar, Patricia Hill Collins, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Maryland and author of a new study looking at how violence differentially affects people according to their sex, class, sexuality, nationality, and ethnicity. These invisible workings of overlapping power relations give rise to what she terms 'lethal intersections,' where the risk of death is much greater for some than others. Drawing on a rich tapestry of cases she asks us to think about what counts as violence today and what can be done about it.

They’re joined by Joyce Jiang, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the University of York, whose latest research examines abuses against female migrant domestic workers in the UK which include long working hours, harsh working conditions, but also verbal, physical and sexual abuses.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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0:47.0	Hello. In advance of this program I conducted a small unstructured survey among friends and relatives.
0:54.0	Ask this, well largely middle-class group if they employed any migrant domestic workers,
1:00.0	perhaps a regular cleaner or a nanny or an occasional cook, and if so did they know the specific
1:06.4	nationality of their employee? Did they know anything at all about their domestic lives,
1:11.4	their homes, their familial circumstances, their state of health.
1:15.0	Did they know the minimum wage for such workers and were they paying more or less than that?
1:21.0	Well, I received a mixed bag of replies. Most respondents... than that
1:25.0	domestic help us from overseas.
1:28.0	but if that domestic help us from overseas,
1:30.0	they often had only a very limited knowledge
1:32.0	about their employees
1:33.4	personal circumstances. But on the positive side there was an assurance
1:37.6	that in all cases the helpers were being paid more than the
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