ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the ways in which the mobilization of the labour of women who have been displaced and relocated by the vagaries of regimes of accumulation inform the dynamics of reproduction of capital. It does this by drawing on fieldwork amongst Asian and Latin American women who work in the affective economies of urban Italy and France. By drawing on the insights of a tradition of materialist feminist anthropology, it seeks to illuminate how the transnationalized labour that is dedicated to intimate work in the reproduction of people is implicated in the reproduction of capitalism. My argument is that by locating our engagements that focus on gendered divisions of labour within materialist feminist epistemologies we are able to reckon with current and recurrent conditions of crisis that beleaguer the lives of ordinary people in the system that dominates the world we inhabit.
