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Prendersi cura di sé e degli altri. Politiche della salute, migrazioni e bio-legittimità in Italia = Taking Care of Oneself and Others. Health Policies, Migrations and Bio-Legitimacy in Italy
No full textOn the basis of an ethnographic research carried out in Padua in this article, the Authors examine work-related health problems and the access to health care of migrant home care workers. The analysis focuses on exchange relations with employers and health services, showing how they intervene in favouring or inhibiting the fundamental right to health. As the Authors show, citizenship rights affect the possibility of taking care of oneself as well as others in the light of welfare policies and social recognition of care work in Italy today
Tides of labour. Forms of exploitation and practices of individual resistance in seasonal tourism industry
Full text linkThis paper investigates seasonal seaside tourism in Eastern Veneto. On one hand, drawing on literature about labour exploitation forms, it examines critical issues and labor standard violations within the sector, focusing on wages, supervision, work rhythms, and segmentation along the lines of gender, migration status, and age. On the other hand, the paper explores individual resistance, particularly through the various exit and quitting strategies employed by workers. This scenario underscores the need to complement individual forms of resistance – recognized as pivotal – with new union interventions and institutional actions to regulate working conditions
Conflicting temporalities and the unsustainability of the Italian model of migrant personal care assistant
Full text linkIn Southern Europe, the migrant-in-the-family model has become a structural component of the elderly care regime. However, home care work is, by its nature, poorly reconcilable with private and family life. In fact, several studies have denounced the limitations on the right to private and family life that these workers suffer. In this article, I use the migrant home care assistants’ experience of conflicting temporalities around the work–life balance as lens through which to show the social unsustainability of the Italian model of home care assistant. This paper is based on broader research conducted between 2018 and 2020 in Padua (Italy) on Moldovan female migrant workers. As part of this research, 30 semi-structured interviews were collected with Moldovan workers employed – at the time of the interview or in the past – in home care for elderly people, in a live-in or live-out regime
Esaurite: le conseguenze del lavoro non standard sulla salute mentale delle lavoratrici migranti
No full textL’articolo propone un’analisi quanti-qualitativa dell’impatto del lavoro non-standard
sulla salute mentale delle lavoratrici migranti, inserendosi all’interno del dibattito
sui determinanti sociali di salute e sulle problematiche di salute dei e delle
migranti. L’ipotesi di ricerca che verrà verificata nel corso del saggio è che il carattere
non-standard di condizioni e orari di lavoro delle occupazioni tipicamente
occupate dalle donne di origine straniera abbia un impatto negativo sulla loro salute
mentale. L’analisi si sviluppa sulla base di una ricerca multi-metodo condotta a Padova
tra il 2018 e il 2020 che ha visto la realizzazione prima di una survey su un
campione di lavoratrici moldave impiegate in diverse occupazioni e poi la realizzazione
di interviste-semi-strutturate a lavoratrici moldave impiegate nel settore del
lavoro domestico e di cura
A slow ride towards permanent residency: legal transitions and the working trajectories of Ukrainian migrants in Italy and Spain
No full textThis article analyses the transition from temporary to permanent residency in Italy and Spain. Despite the growing number of permanent residents in Southern European countries, scholars have paid limited attention to the legal transitions that take place in migrants’ lives after regularisation. We show that different regulations regarding permit renewals can account for qualitative differences in immigrants’ permanent residency. The analysis focuses on legal transitions of two groups of Ukrainian respondents in Italy and Spain. The significant presence of Ukrainian migrants in these two countries, together with the similarity of their legal migration patterns – from overstaying visas to obtaining long-term residency – makes Ukrainian immigration a particularly interesting case to study the hidden mechanisms and implications of legal transitions. The analysis presented here is based on 20 semi-structured interviews conducted in Italy and Spain and reveals differences between norms regarding the renewal of residency permits and their long-term implications for migrants’ labour market participation. In Italy, restrictive renewal regulations and economic requirements contribute to entrapping Ukrainian immigrants in the live-in niche of care work, while occupational trajectories of Ukrainian migrants in Spain are more diverse due to less strict renewal regulation
Essentialism and intersectionality in the selection and recruitment of staff: the devaluation of migrant women’s skills in France and Italy
Full text linkWhile skilled migration has become one of the most acceptable ways of entering Western European countries, the skills of migrant women with tertiary education continue to be undervalued in labour markets. To understand why these women are confined to the bottom of the employment structure, we argue that it is necessary to analyse how essentialism, based on the intersection of gender and racialization, influenced by colonial imaginaries and global inequalities, shapes recruiters’ representations. The article is based on multi-sited fieldwork which consisted of 52 in-depth interviews conducted in France and Italy with migrant women, recruiters, and social workers. Our analysis emphasizes that intersectional essentialism influence recruiters’ assessments of education, work experience, soft skills, and language skills while it reinforces the eroticization of migrant women’s bodies, ultimately leading to the devaluation of migrant women’s capacities
Il lavoro che usura. Migrazioni femminili e salute occupazionale
No full textIl volume si concentra sul complesso rapporto tra lavoro, salute ed esperienza migratoria, analizzando lo stato di salute delle lavoratrici moldave impiegate prevalentemente nei servizi alla persona, notoriamente altamente femminilizzati e a elevata intensità lavorativa. Un libro per studiosi delle migrazioni e del lavoro, decisori politici e professionisti che si occupano di salute nei luoghi di lavoro, di diritti delle popolazioni migranti e di cura delle persone anziane
Health status of female Moldovan migrants to Italy by health literacy level and age group: a descriptive study
Full text linkBackground
Migration flows from Eastern Europe to Italy have been large and continue to grow. The purpose of this study was to examine the health status of a population of Moldovan migrant women, and their access to health care services in northern Italy, by age group and health literacy level.
Methods
We administered an ad-hoc questionnaire to adult Moldovan women. A bivariate analysis was conducted to test the association between health literacy and age groups with other variables (lifestyles, symptoms and diseases, access to health services). A stepwise logistic regression analysis was run to test the association between access to primary care and health literacy. Moreover, the study compare Moldovan women data with a sample of Italian women of the same age range living in North-Eastern region.
Results
Our sample included 170 Moldovan women (aged 46.5 ± 12.3) in five occupational categories: home care workers (28.2%); cleaners (27.1%); health care workers (5.9%); other occupations (28.8%); and unemployed (10%). Active smokers were twice as prevalent among the women with a low health literacy. Health literacy level also determined access to primary healthcare services. For all age groups, the Moldovan sample reported a higher prevalence of allergies, lumbar disorders and depression than the Italian controls.
Conclusions
The reported prevalence of some diseases was higher among Moldovan migrant women than among Italian resident women. Health literacy was associated with the migrant women’s lifestyle and the use of primary health care services, as previously seen for the autochthonous population
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