Life Made Possible: Migrant Care, Settler Health, and Colonial Futurities

Rachel Brown’s Unsettled Labors: Migrant Care Work in Palestine/Israel (2024) theorizes migrant, home-based eldercare as a critical yet underexamined component of the economic, cultural, biological, and discursive reproduction of settler colonialism in Israel and Palestine, where almost 70,000 migrant caregivers are currently working (3). After the first Intifada in 1987, the Israeli government began granting visas to migrant workers…