Irregular Migration and Invisible Welfare

Ambrosini, Maurizio

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“…Since 2003 the number of Ukrainians living in Italy has increased year on year ( Fig. 10.1), with some peaks coinciding with the regularization programmes implemented by Italy in (Ambrosini 2013. As of 2015, 226,060 Ukrainian citizens are resident in Italy.…”

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Migration of Ukrainian Nationals to Italy: Women on the Move

Vianello

2016

IMISCOE Research Series

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Migration of Ukrainian Nationals to Italy: Women on the Move

Vianello

2016

IMISCOE Research Series

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“…It is ultimately the household which is responsible for providing care to its members, as well as for organizing the delegation of care to paid workers. Although some Italian households with dependant members do receive some financial support from the local and national administrations, families still remain largely autonomous in their decisions on how to organise the care they need (Ambrosini 2013. The Italian welfare system thus remains intrinsically based on a 'familistic care 2 'Skill' is a gendered and racialised construction and is the output of negotiations and conflicts over work and the appropriation of work between social groups and around social divisions of class, gender and ethnicity (Cockburn 1981). culture', which 'idealises home-based care provided by family members according to an intergenerational contract' (Näre 2013, p.185).…”

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Gendered and Racialised Constructions of Work in Bureaucratised Care Services in Italy

Marchetti

Scrinzi

2014

SSRN Journal

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The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), created in 1992 and directed by Brigid Laffan since September 2013, aims to develop inter-disciplinary and comparative research and to promote work on the major issues facing the process of integration and European society.The Centre is home to a large post-doctoral programme and hosts major research programmes and projects, and a range of working groups and ad hoc initiatives. The research agenda is organised around a set of core themes and is continuously evolving, reflecting the changing agenda of European integration and the expanding membership of the European Union. The Global Governance Programme at the EUIThe Global Governance Programme (GGP) is research turned into action. It provides a European setting to conduct research at the highest level and promote synergies between the worlds of research and policy-making, to generate ideas and identify creative and innovative solutions to global challenges.The GGP comprises three core dimensions: research, policy and training. Diverse global governance issues are investigated in research strands and projects coordinated by senior scholars, both from the EUI and from other internationally recognized top institutions. The policy dimension is developed throughout the programme, but is highlighted in the GGP High-Level Policy Seminars, which bring together policy-makers and academics at the highest level to discuss issues of current global importance.The Academy of Global Governance (AGG) is a unique executive training programme where theory and "real world" experience meet. Young executives, policy makers, diplomats, officials, private sector professionals and junior academics, have the opportunity to meet, share views and debate with leading academics, top-level officials, heads of international organisations and senior executives, on topical issues relating to governance.For more information: http://globalgovernanceprogramme.eui.eu AbstractScholarship on migrant care work argued that we need to broaden our understanding of the international division of reproductive labour by incorporating into the analysis other agents of social reproduction besides the household such as the non-profit sector, the market and the State. In response to these debates, the article focuses on migrant labour within the bureaucratised care sector, by comparing Latin American and Eastern European women employed in social cooperatives proving home-based elderly care services in Italy. Ethnographic data are used to show how both the workers and the cooperatives' managers negotiate racialised and gendered constructions of care work and skill. We argue that the dominant gendered and racialised perceptions of paid care as non-skilled 'feminine' work, which are at play in private employment, are activated in specific ways in the bureaucratised sector too. Bureaucratised care thus comes into sight as being in strong continuity with the traditional forms of care work, as far as the social construction of the job is concerned. However, it ...

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“…of women in the labor market, demographic changes such as an ageing population, and also a plentiful and flexible migrant labor force from central and eastern European and Asian and African countries (Ambrosini, 2013;Lutz, 2008;Parreñas Salazar, 2001;Roit & Weicht, 2013). Retrenchment in the public provision of care services (e.g., child care or care for the elderly) have also contributed, giving rise to an "invisible welfare" (Ambrosini, 2013) wherein (migrant) domestic workers fill the gaps of state welfare.…”

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“…Retrenchment in the public provision of care services (e.g., child care or care for the elderly) have also contributed, giving rise to an "invisible welfare" (Ambrosini, 2013) wherein (migrant) domestic workers fill the gaps of state welfare. The majority of domestic workers are women and more specifically migrant women, of which an important share are irregular migrants in Europe.…”

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