International migration and livelihood dynamics during the recent economic crisis: a study of Ghanaian migrants in the Como province, Italy

Dotsey, Senyo

doi:10.1080/21632324.2017.1345146

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“…Uncertain and insecure (temporary and marginal) work produces subjective positions that negatively impact all other aspects of health and social life. Many people with legal documents work in this sector without contracts [ 6 , 69 , 70 ]. It is the lack of contracts—the informality of their employment that causes them to be unable to seek remuneration for lost wages, for instance—that makes them precarious.…”

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COVID-19 and (Im)migrant Carers in Italy: The Production of Carer Precarity

Dotsey

Lumley‐Sapanski

Ambrosini

2023

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This article explores the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on foreign health workers in Italy. Focusing on caregivers in Lombardia, we explore what we call carer precarity, an emergent form of precarity resulting from pandemic restrictions exacerbating existing socio-legal vulnerabilities. The duality of the carer role—complete household and societal reliance in addition to simultaneous socio-legal marginalization—shapes their precarity. Utilizing data from 44 qualitative interviews with migrant care workers in live-in and daycare facilities that were conducted prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, we demonstrate how the migrant populations working in the care sector were particularly adversely affected due to their migratory status and working conditions. Migrants are excluded from or have differential access to a range of benefits or entitlements and are employed in undervalued work. Workers with live-in employment experienced tiered access to benefits plus the spatiality of restrictions, resulting in their near-complete confinement. Drawing on Gardner (2022) and Butler’s (2009) conceptualizations of precarity, we describe the emergence of a new form of pandemic-induced spatial precarity for migrant care workers at the nexus of gendered labor, limited mobility, and the spatiality of and a hierarchy of rights associated with migratory status. The findings have implications for healthcare policy and migration scholarship.

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COVID-19 and (Im)migrant Carers in Italy: The Production of Carer Precarity

Dotsey

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Ambrosini

2023

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“…As regards naturalization, there are three primary ways of gaining Italian citizenship: through descendants (jure sanguinis), marriage to an Italian citizen, and residence (ius domicilii). In the latter case, a non-EU citizen may apply if s/he has resided without interruption in Italy for ten years, along with showing a sufficient level of income, proportional to the number of the dependent family members (Dotsey 2018).…”

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“…Legal status considerably shapes several aspects of a (forced) migrant's life, from access to the labor market, education, health, and housing, to future full citizenship status aspirations (Da Lomba 2010). While the pandemic has affected citizens and denizens alike, the peculiar legal standing of migrants and, more specifically, the kind of residence permit they do (not) possess might, in critical ways, heavily affect their access to the labor market and social rights and protections, bearing especially critical consequences in a time of crisis (Dotsey 2018;Devillanova et al 2020). While the possession of a more or less stable and secure legal status does not automatically guarantee full social inclusion (Standing 2011;Dotsey 2018), precariousness experienced in one's legal status might (be) exacerbate(d) or trigger(ed) (by) precariousness in other spheres and conditions (Banki 2013).…”

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Migration and Legal Precarity in the Time of Pandemic: Qualitative Research on the Italian Case

Bonizzoni

Dotsey

2021

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The COVID-19 pandemic has unequally impacted the lives of Italian subjects. The article uses evidence from forty-seven semi-structured interviews with various migrant groups to illuminate how temporalities embedded in Italy’s migration governance shape migrants’ precarious legal status and access to welfare. The authors show that whereas migrants with secure legal status or citizenship have not engaged significantly with Italian bureaucracies, they have no easy access to welfare as it is contingent on their employment and financial status. Migrants with precarious status have been the worst hit by the pandemic’s secondary effects across several fronts. These findings have implications for policy and future research.

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Temporality, refugees, and housing: The effects of temporary assistance on refugee housing outcomes in Italy

Dotsey

Lumley‐Sapanski

2021

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International migration and livelihood dynamics during the recent economic crisis: a study of Ghanaian migrants in the Como province, Italy

Cited by 6 publications

References 23 publications

COVID-19 and (Im)migrant Carers in Italy: The Production of Carer Precarity

COVID-19 and (Im)migrant Carers in Italy: The Production of Carer Precarity

Migration and Legal Precarity in the Time of Pandemic: Qualitative Research on the Italian Case

Temporality, refugees, and housing: The effects of temporary assistance on refugee housing outcomes in Italy

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