Paid Migrant Domestic Labour in a Changing Europe (eBook)

Questions of Gender Equality and Citizenship

Berit Gullikstad, Guro Korsnes Kristensen, Priscilla Ringrose (Herausgeber)

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2016
266 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
9781137517425 (ISBN)

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This book analyses the changing face of work, gender equality and citizenship in Europe. Drawing on in-depth research conducted in nine different countries, it focuses on the discourses, social relations and political processes that surround paid domestic labour. In doing so, it rethinks the vital relationship between this kind of employment, the formal and informal citizenship of migrant workers and their employers, and the cultural and political value of gender equality. Approaching these as fluid, complex and interrelated phenomena that change according to local context, it will appeal to sociologists, political scientists, geographers, anthropologists and gender studies scholars.

Berit Gullikstad is Associate Professor of Gender Research at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.

Guro Korsnes Kristensen is Researcher at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway.

Priscilla Ringrose is Professor of Gender Studies and French Literature at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture and The Department of Language and Literature, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. 

Inhalt

Preface 8
Acknowledgements 10
Contents 12
Notes on Contributors 14
1: Paid Migrant Domestic Labour, Gender Equality, and Citizenship in a Changing Europe: An Introduction 18
Paid Migrant Domestic Labour 20
Gender, Gender Equality, and Citizenship 23
Majoritising and Minoritising Processes 29
Regimes and Relations 31
Regimes 32
Relations 35
References 40
2: Neoliberal Citizenship and Domestic Service in Finland: A Return to a Servant Society? 47
Introduction 47
The Marketisation of Citizenship: Conceptualising Neoliberal Citizenship 50
Paid Household Services in Europe and Finland 54
Data and Methods 57
Articulations of Neoliberal Citizenship in the Tax Credit Debate 58
From Egalitarianism to Neoliberalism: Everyday Practices of Gendered Neoliberal Citizenship 61
Conclusions 64
References 66
3: The Au Pair Scheme as ‘Cultural Exchange’: Effects of Norwegian Au Pair Policy on Gender Equality and Citizenship 70
Introduction 70
Gender Equality and Citizenship in the Norwegian Policy Context 73
Methodology 75
From Worker to Student: Representations of the Au Pair Category 1971–2013 77
Cultural Exchange as a Restricted Gendered Migration Regime 80
Cultural Exchange: Preventing Servitude and Mommy Robbery? 83
A Loophole Which Strengthens Gendered Citizenship 85
References 89
4: Paid Domestic Work in Spain: Gendered Framings of Work and Care in Policies on Social Citizenship 94
Introduction 94
Gendered Social Citizenship and Care Work 96
Debates Surrounding Social Citizenship: A Discursive Policy Analysis 97
Paid Domestic Work and Social Citizenship 98
Household Employment 98
Dependent Care 104
The Reconciliation of Work and Family Life 107
Conclusions 110
References 111
5: Gendered Work and Citizenship: Diverse Experiences of Au Pairing in the UK 115
Introduction 115
Researching Au Pairs in the UK 117
Citizenship, Gender and Domestic Work 119
The (De)Regulation of Au Pairing and Citizenship in the UK 121
Some Au Pairs are More Equal than Others 123
Doing Nationality in the UK Au Pair Labour Market 124
Differences in Home Countries: Opening Already Open Doors? 128
Conclusion 133
References 134
6: From Intimate Relations to Citizenship? Au Pairing and the Potential for Citizenship in Norway 138
Formal, Informal, and Intimate (Heterosexual) Citizenship 140
Analysing Cultural Narratives of Intimacy 144
Queering Independence 145
Marrying ‘Dad’ 147
The Limits of Belonging 150
Agency in Informal Citizenship 152
Promising Intimacy? 155
References 157
7: Citizenship and Maternalism in Migrant Domestic Labour: Filipina Workers and Their Employers in Amsterdam and Rome 160
Introduction 160
Maternalism and the ‘Family Analogy’ in Paid Domestic Work 162
Filipina Domestic Workers and the Concept of Citizenship 164
Maternalism from the Employers’ Perspective 167
Negotiations Around Gratitude in the Views of Employees 171
Conclusions 177
References 178
8: Paid Migrant Domestic Labour in Gender-Equal Norway: A Win–Win Arrangement? 182
Introduction 182
Background 183
Paid Migrant Domestic Work, Gender Equality, and Citizenship 187
Empirical Data, Methodology, and Analytical Tools 189
‘A Great Help’ 190
‘Better than Nothing’ 196
The Good Norwegian Citizens and the Empowered Migrant Women 202
References 203
9: The Intouchables: Care Work, Homosociality and National Fantasy 207
Introduction 207
Background 209
From Colonial Chains to Homosocial Bonds 214
Conclusion 225
References 226
10: Unequal Fatherhoods: Citizenship, Gender, and Masculinities in Outsourced ‘Male’ Domestic Work 228
Introduction 228
Polish Handymen in German Households: The Male Dimension of Social Reproduction? 230
Citizenship Perspectives: Expansion, Erosion, and Engendering 232
Gender Equality from the Perspective of Masculinity and Fatherhood Studies 235
Empirical Basis 237
Unequal Fatherhoods and Masculinities 238
Outsourcing Fathers 238
The New Butler 242
Conclusion 248
References 250
11: Buying and Selling Gender Equality: Concluding Reflections 255
The European Context 256
The Making of the Gender-Equal Citizen 259
Majoritising and Minoritising Processes 261
Agency and Negotiations 263
Commonalities and Complexities: Localised Contexts and Global Challenges 265
References 266
Index 267

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.7.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Citizenship, Gender and Diversity
• Reihe/Serie: Citizenship, Gender and Diversity
• Zusatzinfo: XVI, 266 p.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Au Pairs • Care • employees • employers • Employment • Family-Work Balance • Female Domestic Workers • Gender • Gender Studies • Labour Regimes • Male Domestic Workers • Migration • Nation • Policy • Service • Sociology • welfare regimes • Work
• ISBN-13: 9781137517425 / 9781137517425