Beyond 'women's work' : gender, ethnicity and the management of paid care work in non-profit domiciliary services in Italy

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dc.contributor.authorSCRINZI, Francesca
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-02T16:21:06Z
dc.date.available2020-03-02T16:21:06Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionPublished online: 13 Dec 2018en
dc.description.abstractBased on qualitative data, this article focuses on management practices in social cooperatives operating as non-profit providers of domiciliary care services in Italy. Their livelihood is eroded by the presence of migrant live-in care-givers, who are privately employed, inexpensive and often irregular. This competition is not only economic but also symbolic, as it jeopardises the managers’ attempts to define care work as a skilled job and reproduces notions of care as naturally feminine ‘women’s work’. The article analyses the strategies adopted by the managers in order to negotiate this competition, and shows how these challenge dominant gendered constructions of care work.en
dc.identifier.citationJournal of immigrant and refugee studies, 2019, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 441-456en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/15562948.2018.1538472
dc.identifier.endpage456en
dc.identifier.issn1556-2948
dc.identifier.issn1556-2956
dc.identifier.issue4en
dc.identifier.startpage441en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/66361
dc.identifier.volume17en
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dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of immigrant and refugee studiesen
dc.titleBeyond 'women's work' : gender, ethnicity and the management of paid care work in non-profit domiciliary services in Italyen
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