What’s New about Social Reproduction?

Braedley, Susan; McWhinney, Tara

doi:10.52975/llt.2022v89.0011

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“…Feminist political economy draws attention to these positions and locations within and across history (Arat-Koç, 2006;Luxton, 2006;Braedley and Luxton, 2015). Feminist political economists have long noted that the undervaluation of care work is central to women's oppression, particularly for migrant women involved in care work in host countries (Glenn, 2010;Armstrong and Braedley, 2013;Braedley and McWhinney, 2022). Many migrant women navigate double jeopardy in relation to their positions in the care economy for two main reasons.…”

Section: Feminist Political Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Arat-Koç (2006) was among those who pointed out that many migrant women engage directly in the social reproduction of the host country's population by working as "maids, nannies, or caregivers for the elderly or the disabled, or as sex workers" (p.77). Many high-income countries depend on the undervalued and unpaid care work performed by immigrant care workers (Braedley and McWhinney, 2022). Fleshing out the key assumptions that shape social reproduction as an entry point in feminist political economy analyses, Braedley and Luxton (2015) note that sex/gender divisions of labour are not natural, but historically and socially constructed and change over time; the activities in sustaining and reproducing daily life are not just biological or instinctive expressions of the way people naturally live in families, but constitute work that is determined by regional historical, political, economic, and social relations; these labors are not just private activities involved in intimate kinship and family relations but work that is socially necessary and central to the production of both subsistence and wealth in any society (p. vii).…”

Section: Feminist Political Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With the heightened realities of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, social reproduction has been recognized as fundamental to our livelihoods. Further, its potential to build solidarity across movements that stand against capitalist oppression cannot be underestimated Braedley and McWhinney, 2022). Specific to this study, the concept of social reproduction allowed me to understand how racialized immigrant care workers in rural and smalltown Canadian long-term care homes are inserted in the care economies of Canada and elsewhere in three main ways.…”

Section: Feminist Political Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Immigrant care workers have long been pertinent contributors to the Canadian care economy, but the COVID-19 pandemic made their contributions more evident and tractable for all. Many immigrants, especially women, were at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19 and actively engaged in social reproductive labour when there was limited knowledge of the disease, its deadliness and contagiousness (Braedley and McWhinney, 2022). Paying the ultimate price with their lives, some would die and many more would be infected (Turcotte and Savage, 2020;Gupta and Aitken, 2022).…”

Section: Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Care work ensures the maintenance of people in the context of familial relationships, in communities, and in public institutions. Although care work is central to human existence, it is undervalued because it is taken for granted in capitalist economies (Braedley and McWhinney, 2022). Glenn's (2010) Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America presents three interlocking activities involved in care work.…”

Section: Immigrant Care Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Racialized Workers in White Spaces: Exploring the Experiences of Racialized, Immigrant Care Workers in Rural and Small Town Canadian Long-Term Care Homes

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What are the everyday life experiences of racialized immigrant care workers in rural and smalltown Canadian long-term care homes, and how do they navigate white spaces in these contexts? This pre-Covid study centers the experiences of immigrant care workers and describes how they navigate white dominance in rural and small-town Canadian long-term care homes.The study is timely and provides relevant implications for long-term care homes, pandemic and beyond. While several authors have offered excellent scholarship on long-term care home work and immigrant, racialized workers, the focus has been mainly on urban centers. As a result, little is known about their conditions of work and care in rural and small-town long-term care homes.My research contributes to extant research by bringing into focus the experiences of racialized care workers in rural and small-towns and demonstrating how white dominance exacerbates poor conditions of work for immigrant care workers. The study utilizes feminist political economy, critical race theory and critical whiteness theory as theoretical foundations, to center their voices in care processes.The analysis draws on data collected in a sub-study of the Seniors' Adding Life to Years (SALTY) project, in which rapid team-based ethnographies were conducted in rural and small towns in Ontario, Nova Scotia, and British Columbia. The study analyses white environments and demonstrates how white-settler culture is woven into long-term care spaces, excluding racialized immigrants. Further, it draws on auto-ethnographic stories from my experiences as a racialized immigrant in the research field and stories from immigrant care workers to explain processes of racialization in long-term care home settings. Parsing out the implications of the casualization of long-term care home labour and burdensome credential validation processes, the study demonstrates how immigrant care workers are set up to experience the most precarious conditions of work in long-term care homes. EXPLORING THE EXPERIENCES OF RACIALIZED IMMIGRANT CARE WORKERSiii AcknowledgementsThank you is an underestimation of the gratitude I owe my supervisor, Susan Braedley, who has contributed immensely to my development as an academic. For the incredible amount of patience that has challenged the very limits of her patience, I am grateful.To my committee, I say a big thank you for shaping my ideas from the onset and for challenging me to do better. Thank you, Colleen Lundy, Lisa Mills, and Paul Mkandawire.

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Section: Feminist Political Economymentioning

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Section: Feminist Political Economymentioning

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Section: Immigrant Care Workmentioning

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