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CareWork · Female Paid Domestic Care Work: A Node of Social Reproduction

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2021-10-04 → 2024-06-04
Финансиране от ЕС: 174 167 €
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Схема: MSCA-IF

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Накратко на български

Платените грижи за деца и възрастни, извършвани неофициално от жени в Босна и Херцеговина и Западна Европа, са в центъра на това антропологично проучване. То помага да се разбере как този труд влияе върху социалния живот и миграцията на работниците.

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Резултати накратко

Female Paid Domestic Care Work: A Node of Social Reproduction

CareWork is an anthropological study of informal, paid domestic care work for children and older persons performed by women in and from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The organisation of care has is central to policy debates in many countries. In BiH it has so far attracted little public discussion, and still less policy. Yet, paid care – overwhelmingly informally, provided almost exclusively by women – is crucial to many households. Motivated by the worldwide under-recognition of this essential activity as real labour and by global changes in its organisation, this ethnographic study builds on (socialist) feminist scholarship that places care at the centre of political economy. Three specificities stand out. Firstly, instead of employing a micro-focus on static kinship relations, this study investigates care work as a processual, relational, transformative social activity that shapes and is shaped by broader processes, thus providing a prism to understand issues of social reproduction and transformations. Secondly, it approaches social reproduction in a transnational framework (specifically: Europeanisation). Grounded in an investigation of informal paid care work in Sarajevo (BiH), it analyses care workers' social reproduction strategies, including their considerations and practices of (often periodical) labour migration. Austria (also: Germany and Italy) thus features as an auxiliary site for research on informal paid care work by women from BiH. Thirdly, the study analyses how different stakeholders conceive of 'good' care, with a focus on contradictions and tensions. Its innovative methodology revolves around 'care clusters' that emerge from the interactions of differentially positioned care givers, care receivers, and family members of both. Three central research questions are: a) How is informal paid care work organised in practice?; b) How does it shape up in relation to broader social processes (e.g. reconfigurations of labour and social security, of ethnonational relations, of migration) in light of processes of Europeanisation?; c) Which effects (including transformations) does this work produce for the various stakeholders?

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

CareWork is an anthropological study of domestic paid female care work for children and elderly persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Motivated by the global under-recognition of this essential activity as real labor and by recent global changes in its organization, my research goes beyond the almost exclusive anthropological theorization of care within kinship studies. Building on (socialist) feminist scholarly traditions on domestic work, which places care at the centre of political economy, CareWork investigates informal paid female domestic care work as a socially productive and reproductive relational activity in a dialectic relationship with broader social transformations in BiH and beyond. To enhance and fill gaps in current scholarship it uses an innovative methodology: it traces care work through ‘care clusters’ (various households differentially affected by it) and focuses on two connected sites—Sarajevo (primary site) and Austria (auxiliary site, a nearby top destination for BiH labour migration by carers)—to reconstruct the dynamics and dialectics of such work. This ethnographic study revolves around the following questions: a) How is this care work organized?; b) How does it shape up in relation to broader social processes (e.g. reconfigurations of labour and social security, of ethnonational relations, of migratory patterns) in light of processes of Europeanization?; c) What kind of effects/changes does this care work produce for the various stakeholders? In BiH global changes are particularly visible as it is marked by multiple formal—postwar, postsocialist, Europeanizing—transformations over the last 25 years. Tracing how social transformations converge in care work, CareWork affirms care as a central category of anthropological theory and demonstrates how social scientists can productively employ it as a prism for studying social transformations, as a deeply gendered node of social reproduction with retrograde and emancipatory potential.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITAET GRAZ · GrazКоординаторАвстрия