Migration and Domestic Work: A European Perspective on a Global Theme (Studies in Migration and Diaspora)

Domestic work has become highly relevant on a local and global scale. Until a decade ago, domestic workers were rare in European households; today they can be found working for middle-class families and single people, for double or single parents as well as for the elderly. Performing the three C's - cleaning, caring and cooking - domestic workers offer their woman power on a global market which Europe has become part of. This global market is now considered the largest labor market for women world wide and it has triggered the feminization of migration.This volume brings together contributions by European and US based researchers to look at the connection between migration and domestic work on an empirical and theoretical level. The contributors, including Jacqueline Andall and Bridget Anderson, elaborate on the phenomenon of 'domestic work' in late modern societies by discussing different methodological and theoretical approaches in an interdisciplinary setting. The volume also looks at the gendered aspects of domestic work; it asks why the re-introduction of domestic workers in European households have become so popular and will argue that this phenomenon is challenging gender theories. This is a timely book and is of interest to academics and students in migration, gender and European studies. Contents......Page 6 List of Contributors......Page 8 Foreword......Page 11 Series Editor’s Preface......Page 12 1 Introduction: Migrant Domestic Workers in Europe......Page 14 PART ONE: DOMESTIC WORK – BUSINESS AS USUAL?......Page 24 2 The Intersection of Childcare Regimes and Migration Regimes: A Three-Country Study......Page 26 3 Migrations and the Restructuring of the Welfare State in Italy: Change and Continuity in the Domestic Work Sector......Page 42 4 When Home Becomes a Workplace: Domestic Work as an Ordinary Job in Germany?......Page 56 5 Perceptions of Work in Albanian Immigrants’ Testimonies and the Structure of Domestic Work in Greece......Page 74 PART TWO: TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION SPACES: POLICIES, FAMILIES AND HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT......Page 88 6 The Globalisation of Domestic Service – An Historical Perspective......Page 90 7 Perpetually Foreign: Filipina Migrant Domestic Workers in Rome......Page 112 8 Domestic Work and Transnational Care Chains in Spain......Page 126 9 Contingencies Among Households: Gendered Division of Labour and Transnational Household Organization – The Case of Ukrainians in Austria......Page 140 PART THREE: STATES AND MARKETS: MIGRATION REGIMES AND STRATEGIES......Page 156 10 Risk and Risk Strategies in Migration: Ukrainian Domestic Workers in Poland......Page 158 11 Between Intimacy and Alienage: The Legal Construction of Domestic and Carework in the Welfare State......Page 174 12 Being Illegal in Europe: Strategies and Policies for Fairer Treatment of Migrant Domestic Workers......Page 190 13 Conclusion: Domestic Work, Migration and the New Gender Order in Contemporary Europe......Page 208 G......Page 222 M......Page 223 W......Page 224 Domestic work has become highly relevant on a local and global scale. Until a decade ago, domestic workers were rare in European households; today they can be found working for middle-class families and single people, for double or single parents as well as for the elderly. Performing the three C's - cleaning, caring and cooking - domestic workers offer their woman power on a global market which Europe has become part of. This global market is now considered the largest labour market for women world wide and it has triggered the feminization of migration. This volume brings together contributions by European and US based researchers to look at the connection between migration and domestic work on an empirical and theoretical level. The contributors elaborate on the phenomenon of 'domestic work' in late modern societies by discussing different methodological and theoretical approaches in an interdisciplinary setting. The volume also looks at the gendered aspects of domestic work; it asks why the re-introduction of domestic workers in European households has become so popular and will argue that this phenomenon is challenging gender theories. This is a timely book and will be of interest to academics and students in the fields of migration, gender and European studies. Focuses on the work of Western-educated African and Indian women writers resisting gender identity constructions at various points in history. This book examines colonial and national gender identity constructions in female-authored texts at 'home' and the continued deployment of and resistance to gender identity impositions in various spaces. This volume looks at the connection between migration and domestic work on an empirical and theoretical level. The contributors, including Jacqueline Andall and Bridget Anderson, elaborate on the phenomenon of 'domestic work' in late modern societies by discussing different methodological and theoretical approaches Edited By Helma Lutz. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 208) And Index.