Our introduction to this Special Issue draws out themes from all four articles which focus on India’s domestic-care economy: women’s paid domestic labour, care work and surrogacy. Through fine-grained ethnographic detail, all the articles nuance questions around agency and resistance, and actively challenge the ‘passive victim’ stereotype that continues to be the primary imaginary in many representations of domestic-care workers. We describe how the articles detail the intimacy, emotional labour and complex spatial dynamics inherent within a sector that often involves working in the homes of others, caring for children, and complex relationships with employers. Additionally, we show how care workers encounter quotidian forms of bodily control, distancing, segregation, authority, stigma, coercion, punitive sanctions and exploitation embedded in the intersections of class, race, caste, gender and ethnicity. To provide a wider framing for the articles, we utilize this introduction to situate them within broader historical and geographical contexts. Thus, we consider how global care chains (GCCs), labour markets, migration, and colonial/postcolonial considerations interplay in shaping the everyday lives of domestic-care workers in contemporary globalizing India.

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我们对本期特刊的介绍从所有四篇关注印度家庭护理经济的文章中提取主题：女性的有偿家务劳动、护理工作和代孕。通过细致的民族志细节，所有文章都围绕代理和抵抗提出了细微的问题，并积极挑战“被动受害者”的刻板印象，这种刻板印象仍然是许多家庭护理工作者的主要想象。我们描述了这些文章如何详细描述了一个部门内固有的亲密关系、情感劳动和复杂的空间动态，该部门通常涉及在他人家中工作、照顾孩子以及与雇主的复杂关系。此外，我们展示了护理人员如何遇到日常形式的身体控制、疏远、隔离、权威、污名、胁迫、嵌入在阶级、种族、种姓、性别和族裔交叉点中的惩罚性制裁和剥削。为了为文章提供更广泛的框架，我们利用此介绍将它们置于更广泛的历史和地理背景中。因此，我们考虑了全球护理链 (GCC)、劳动力市场、移民和殖民/后殖民考虑如何在当代全球化的印度塑造家庭护理工作者的日常生活中相互作用。