Satisfied after all? Working trajectories and job satisfaction of foreign-born female domestic and care workers in Italy

Belgiojoso, Elisa Barbiano di; Ortensi, Livia Elisa

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2018.1465401

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“…Therefore, migrants from more recent EU member states and migrants from Ukraine, who are mostly economic migrants, are more likely to intend to return, compared with other EU and other developed countries. For instance, migrants with Ukraine and Philippine citizenship are middle‐aged women, generally forerunners, with a residence permit for work reasons, employed in the care sector in Italy and with “transnational families” in the country of origin or in other countries of residence (Barbiano di Belgiojoso & Ortensi, ; Conti, Bonifazi, & Strozza, ). Unlike to women migrants with other citizenships of origin, who generally enter the country to rejoin their partners, with a residence permit for family reasons, and express low return intentions, they entered the country through the labour market channel, consider their experience in Italy limited to the achievement of economic goals and, therefore, present higher temporary settlement intentions (Barbiano di Belgiojoso & Terzera, ).…”

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Remain or return home: The migration intentions of first‐generation migrants in Italy

Bonifazi

Paparusso

2018

Population Space and Place

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Investigating future migration intentions as a proxy of future migration behaviours is useful to capture a more complete understanding of the entire migration process.This also allows a fuller consideration of the policy implications of these intentions for the origin and destination countries. The aim of this paper is to analyse the individual factors associated with the return migration intentions of first-generation migrants living in Italy, a new immigration country, whose migrants' return intentions have been little explored so far. We use data from the survey on the "Social Condition and Integration of Foreign Citizens" carried out by ISTAT in 2011-2012, and we apply a binary logistic regression model. The results show both the complexity and the interconnection of the factors associated with return migration intentions and that migration projects, histories, and goals count more than legal status for return intentions. Moreover, results prove that return migration intentions are influenced by conflicting processes, whose outcomes are not always easy to schematize: integration is a factor that tends to strengthen the ties with the country of residence, whereas transnationalism reinforces those with the country of origin. These factors should be considered by policymakers, especially when immigration assumes a crucial role in the receiving countries' labour market structure and population dynamics, such as in the case of Italy. Different migratory backgrounds, profiles, histories, and projects will require in-depth examination by scientists and policymakers, because the long-term ability and willingness of a host country to attract and retain migrants should be adapted accordingly.

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Remain or return home: The migration intentions of first‐generation migrants in Italy

Bonifazi

Paparusso

2018

Population Space and Place

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“…To our knowledge, while a recent study conducted in Italy systematically interviewed female domestic and care workers (di Belgiojoso & Ortensi, 2018), this is the first attempt at systematically sampling live-in MDWs who resided within the employers’ households for quantitative survey utilizing a multistage cluster sampling method. Despite the scientific rigor of the method, there are a few difficulties and limitations.…”

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Data Collection for Migrant Live-In Domestic Workers: A Three-Stage Cluster Sampling Method

Chung

Liao

Fong

2020

American Behavioral Scientist

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This article discusses an innovative method of collecting survey data on a special population, migrant live-in domestic workers, for which it is difficult to define an appropriate sampling framework. These migrant workers, however, have regular gatherings in public spaces within a certain period of time during the weekends. In this article, we present the method of collecting data on this group of domestic workers and the procedures for implementing the method. We also discuss its limitations, the difficulties encountered, as well as possible directions for improving the method in the future.

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“…Another recent in-depth interview of Filipino and Indonesian migrant domestic workers in the United Arabic Emirates identified the pattern of serial, multicountry labor migration as well (Parreñas et al, 2018). Some scholars have recently taken a similar approach to the one in this article and analyzed quantitative employment trajectory data of female foreign-born domestic and care workers in Italy by focusing on the types of work (di Belgiojoso & Ortensi, 2019). However, this type of analysis has not been done on the entire migration trajectory of a migrant worker.…”

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“…There is a study using Italian data that examines how prior working trajectory affects job satisfaction. It found that foreign-born women, if taking domestic and care workers as their first job on arrival, tend to report higher job satisfaction (di Belgiojoso & Ortensi, 2019). But how does complexity in migration history affect job satisfaction?…”

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“…In particular, the complexity of migration trajectories in the form of “entropy” is employed in our analysis of the migrant workers’ job satisfaction. Research has shown that female domestic and care workers’ working trajectories are important for their job satisfaction (di Belgiojoso & Ortensi, 2019). We also analyze a typology of migrant workers in terms of migratory paths regarding the women’s individual characteristics, to explore the individual factors related to the types of migration.…”

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Filipino and Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong: Their Life Courses in Migration

Liao

Gan

2020

American Behavioral Scientist

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This article presents a portrayal of Filipino and Indonesian female domestic workers’ life courses in migration, using the life history calendar data from the 2017 survey of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong. Applying sequence analysis, we first analyzed migration trajectory features such as individual migration trajectories, duration spent in each state, and longitudinal diversity of state distributions. We found that Indonesian domestic workers, compared with their Filipino counterparts, are more diverse in their migration histories, indicating involvements in serial migration. We also conducted a cluster analysis of the domestic workers’ migratory trajectories. The analysis yielded three meaningful clusters/types of migrant workers—those moved late in life, those who participated in serial migration, and those migrated directly from their home country to Hong Kong. Finally, we investigated the effect of a complex migration history on job satisfaction and the characteristics of membership in the three ideal-typical migration types among the domestic workers older than 39 years.

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Satisfied after all? Working trajectories and job satisfaction of foreign-born female domestic and care workers in Italy

Cited by 34 publications

References 46 publications

Remain or return home: The migration intentions of first‐generation migrants in Italy

Remain or return home: The migration intentions of first‐generation migrants in Italy

Data Collection for Migrant Live-In Domestic Workers: A Three-Stage Cluster Sampling Method

Filipino and Indonesian Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong: Their Life Courses in Migration

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