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Domestic and care work at the intersection of welfare, gender and migration regimes
— [themed section] | | Author(s) | Majella Kilkey, Helma Lutz, Ewa Palenga-Möllenbeck |
| Journal title | Social Policy & Society, vol 9, pt 3, July 2010 |
| Pages | pp 379-460 |
| Source | http://www.journals.cambridge.org/sps |
| Keywords | Domiciliary services ; Personnel ; Women ; Immigrants ; Migration ; Employment ; Social surveys ; Europe ; Portugal ; Spain ; Germany ; Poland ; United Kingdom. |
| Annotation | Research over the last decade and more, has documented a resurgence of paid domestic and care labour (that is, work performed for pay in private households, such as household cleaning and maintenance and care for older people, the disabled or children) across the Global North. Much of the research has revealed the increasing reliance on migrant, as opposed to home-state, domestic workers, and it has been suggested that domestic and care work has contributed more than any other sector of the labour market to one of the key features of the 'age of migration' - its feminisation. At the same time though, as Linton's (2002) research on immigrant-niche formation in the USA suggests, the availability of immigrants in itself, has probably contributed to the growth of the sector. The six articles comprising this themed section consider this position further in Portugal, Spain, Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-100827214 A |
| Classmark | N: QM: SH: TJ: TN: WJ: 3F: 74: 76T: 76S: 767: 7AE: 8 |
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