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Workers and Strangers

The Household Service Economy and the Landscape of Suburban Fear

Kristen Hill Maher

San Diego State University

The growing household service economy (e.g., domestic service, gardening) introduces social heterogeneity both within and near suburban regions that have previously been segregated by race and class. The author examines this dynamic through an ethnographic study of a community in Orange County, California, and argues that the shifts in social geography accompanying the household service economy in this neighborhood had exacerbated existing anxieties about security and contributed to the popular desire among residents to "fortress." The findings of this study suggest that in a bifurcated economy in which household services proliferate, more suburban neighborhoods may retreat into highly regulated, gated communities.

Key Words: residential segregation • suburban areas • social inequality • fear of crime • neighborhoods • race • foreign workers • domestics • spatial analysis • Orange County, California

Urban Affairs Review, Vol. 38, No. 6, 751-786 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1078087403038006001
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