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Migration and Domestic Work
Full text linkThis open access short reader offers a systematic overview of the scholarly debate on the experiences of migrant domestic workers at a global level, in the past as well as in present time. It tackles the nexus between migration and domestic work with a multi-layered approach. The book looks into the issue of (paid) domestic work in migratory contexts by investigating the feminization of migration, thereby considering the larger framework within which this specific phenomenon takes place. The author explains notions such as the “international division of reproductive labor” or “global care chains” which emphasize the inequality in the way care and domestic tasks are distributed today between middle-class women in receiving nations and migrant domestic workers. Moreover, the book shows how women migrating to work in the domestic work and private care sector are facing a complex landscape of migration and labor regulations that are extremely difficult to navigate. At the same time, this issue also addresses employers’ households who cannot find appropriate or affordable care among declining welfare states and national workers reluctant to take the job, whilst legal regulations make difficult to hire a domestic worker who is a third country national. As such this book offers an interesting read to academics, policy makers and all those working in the field
Black girls : migrant domestic workers and colonial legacies
No full textIn today’s Europe, migrant domestic workers are indispensable in supporting many households which, without their employment, would lack sufficient domestic and care labour. Black Girls collects and explores the stories of some of the first among these workers. They are the Afro-Surinamese and the Eritrean women who in the 1960s and 70s migrated to the former colonising country, the Netherlands and Italy respectively, and there became domestic and care workers. Sabrina Marchetti analyses the narratives of some of these women in order to powerfully demonstrate how the legacies of the colonial past have been, at the same time, both their tool of resistance and the reason for their subordination.-- Introduction; 1. Keywords; 2. Differences and similarities in history;
-- Part I: POSTCOLONIAL MIGRANTS; 3. Colonial Acculturation and Belonging; 4. Paramaribo and Asmara as ‘Culture-Contact Zones’; 5. Postcolonial Encounters: Arriving in Italy and the Netherlands
-- Part II: MIGRANT DOMESTIC LABOUR; 6. A Labour Niche for Postcolonial Migrant; 7. Narratives and Practices of Work and Identity; 8. ‘Ethnicisation’ of Care and Domestic Skills; 9. Racism at Work, Under Colonial Legacies;
-- Conclusions; Appendices; Bibliography; Index
«Domestic work is work»: but for whom? Tensions around labour rights and the valorisation of care in Ecuador and Colombia
No full textFeminist scholarship and movements worldwide have extensively engaged in theorising reproductive labour as an undervalued element of local and global political economies and have been pushing for its recognition «as work». At the same time, since the late 2000s the conditions of paid domestic workers have become an object of a new wave of mobilisation. Demands for equal labour rights and decent work for this category of workers have been put forward at the national and international level, while new international legislation has been adopted, such as ILO Convention 189. Despite these potentially convergent elements, it is not clear to what extent feminist theories on the valorisation of care and reproductive labour can be extended to, or can include, the case of paid domestic workers. In order to address this issue, in this article we present a comparative analysis of the relationships between feminist actors and domestic workers’ groups in Ecuador and Colombia from the late 2000s to 2018
The gender-migration nexus: debates and main issues
No full textThis chapter provides an overview of both how taking a gender perspective changes our understanding of migratory phenomena and how gender-based differences and inequalities affect (and are affected by) migration. In so doing, it discusses the notion of ‘feminization of migration’, which may have quite different meanings when we take it as a quantitative or qualitive matter. Secondly, it offers an historical overview of the scholarship that has developed around the gender-migration nexus in the last 50 years. The chapter pays specific attention to the case of migrant domestic and care workers, which have become a central object of inquiry in such scholarship, mobilizing notions such as ‘international division of reproductive labour’ and ‘global care chains’
Dreaming circularity? : Eastern European women and job-sharing in paid home care
No full textCircularity seems to be on the tip of everyone’s tongue and, inter- estingly, eastern European care workers and Italian employers are starting to depict this arrangement as their “ideal.” Yet these ide- alized descriptions still raise a number of questions. Throughout this article, the narratives from eastern European “circular-carers” and those of Italian employers illustrate the way commodification of care, transformation of gender roles in post-Soviet countries, and the precarization of women’s labor (especially for breadwinners age 50 and older) influence individual desires and decisions and, thus, promote the spread of this migratory pattern
Il silenzio della terra. Sociologia postcoloniale, realtà aborigene e l'importanza del luogo
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The Global Governance of Paid Domestic Work: Comparing the Impact of ILO Convention No. 189 in Ecuador and India
Full text linkThis article looks at the gradual development of a ‘global governance of paid domestic work’ by assessing the impact of the ILO Convention n. 189 on campaigns for domestic workers’ rights in different countries. Here I compare the case of Ecuador and India as two contrasting examples of the ways in which state and non-state organizations have positioned themselves around the issue, revealing how the context-dependent character of domestic workers’ rights can ultimately condition the mobilisation of different actors in each context. On the basis of the theory of ‘strategic fields of action’, I also define the promulgation of C189 as an ‘exogenous change’ that has differing impacts on the relevant social actors in two countries. As I will show, these national differences give shape to a very different modality in campaigns for domestic workers’ rights, resulting in different roles, purposes and scope of action for key social actors
Georgina and the others : postcoloniality and Afro-Surinamese care workers in the Netherlands
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