Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Minorities and the Digital Media -- From Digital Utopia to the Everyday -- Digital Media and Everyday Life -- Documenting the Undocumented -- 2 Global Nannies: A Global-Historical Perspective -- Feminization of Migration: Nannies from the Global South -- Why Women Move: Development as Freedom -- Remittances for Development: Philippines, Indonesia, Sri Lanka -- New Nannies of Europe -- Paris: The Other Side of the Global City -- 3 Mobile Phone for Empowerment? Work Life, Power and Freedom -- Mobile Phone as Social Capital -- Disposable Life -- Mobile Connection, Disempowerment and Inequality -- 4 Digital Media for Intimacy? Family Life and Transnational Mothering -- Intensive Mothering: Gender Inequality Unchanged -- Intimacy and Digital Fatigue -- Morality of Mothering -- 5 Digital Media and Intergenerational Migration -- Mediated Migration: "Paris is Beautiful"--Digital Media in an Emotional Sphere -- Self-Expression Online: "I am Doing Nothing"--6 The Care of the Self: "As a Woman, Not as a Mother or a Nanny" -- Self-Sacrifice: Money, Time, Leisure -- Not Part of the Family -- Gossip Community, Sexuality, and Erotic Capital -- Digital Media as Affective Practice: "Doing Things Together" -- 7 Racism, Ethnic Media, and Home -- Banal Racism in Everyday Life -- Ethnic Media, Ethnic Enclave -- Home Always There: "I'm Not Going to Stay Here Forever" -- 8 Cosmopolitan Hospitality -- Whose Cosmopolitanism? -- Hospitality as an Urgent Response -- Bibliography -- Index