La migración interna y el acceso al primer empleo. Estudio de caso sobre Uganda

Boutin, Delphine

doi:10.1111/ilrs.12105

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“…For example, Colen (1995) documented the increased presence of West Indian women working as domestic workers for middle-upper-class households in New York since the 1960s. More recently, Filipina women (Parreñas, 2015) and women from Colombia and Mexico (Durin, 2017) have been shown to have a critical role in performing all kinds of domestic and childrearing tasks for the US and French middle-upper-class households, respectively. Some evidence has shown positive experiences for the live-in babysitters or au pairs as they get an opportunity to travel, gain experience outside of their country of birth, and learn a new language (Barros & Escobar Latapí, 2017; Hondagneu-Sotelo, 2007); while others experience exploitation from their employers due to their migration status, the lack of regulation and poor, if any, law enforcement regarding their rights.…”

Section: Global Domestic Workers and Their Role In Social Reproductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Power relations and persistent low fertility among domestic workers in Latin America

Torres

Gutierrez-Vazquez

2023

The Sociological Review

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Scholarly work on international chains of care have highlighted the stratified nature of reproductive work along the lines of gender, social class, race/ethnicity, and cross-national economic inequalities, particularly with regard to childbearing and childrearing tasks. Immigrant women from the global South are taking rising shares of domestic and care workloads in global North countries. Less attention has been devoted to national contexts, particularly from a quantitative perspective. Using large-scale nationally representative data for Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, this work presents a quantitative assessment of fertility and offspring mortality patterns among live-in domestic workers and their employers ( patronas) during the second half of the 20th century. Our results indicate that the historically low and delayed fertility of live-in domestic workers stems from the confluence of socioeconomic disadvantages throughout their life courses, the everyday mobility constraints they face, the physical control exerted over them by their employers, and the expropriation of their daily and life course time by middle- and upper-class families. These results underline the stratified nature of reproduction in the Latin American context and urge scholars, particularly those working with quantitative data, to re-center research questions around the social mechanisms, including power relations, underpinning unequal living conditions and their consequences for the stratification of reproductive tasks. We use this evidence to argue that the increasingly feminized nature of domestic work and the rising trends of socioeconomic inequalities within and between countries render the examination of intersectionality-defined minorities central for a deeper understanding of family change beyond the Latin American context.

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Section: Global Domestic Workers and Their Role In Social Reproductionmentioning

confidence: 99%