PRECNIGHTS · Precarity Amongst Women Migrant Nightworkers in Ireland

Precarity Amongst Women Migrant Nightworkers in Ireland

In line with Annex 1 of the Grant Agreement for this project, all five packages were carried out. As part of this project, there were four research objectives and three training objectives. The project has achieved most of its objectives and milestones for the period, with relatively minor deviations. The following details the work carried out during the fellowship towards the achievement of the four scientific objectives. They all informed the Research Study carried out as part of WP1: Objective 1. This objective was accomplished through 8 months of nocturnal fieldwork in Dublin and Cork. The empirical material resulting for this research objective consists of 14 audio-video interviews in Dublin and Cork with women from South America (7), South Africa (1) and Central and Eastern Europe (6). Objective 2. This objective was achieved through conducting 2 focus groups with 13 African women working as Health Care Assistants and cleaners in the care sector and private residences with elderly and hospitals in Mallow and Cork. These migrant women nightworkers balanced nightwork duties with childcare and responsibilities from transnational relationships, at and away from home. Objective 3. As with the Research Objective 2, this objective was achieved through the audio-video interviews. In addition to interviews with women migrants, I also audio-video interviewed 2 Irish males in supervising positions of women migrant nightworkers in fast-food take aways in Cork. These data (observations, field notes, interviews, summary of health data) are thematically analysed based on an interpretivist approach, that I have experience with, to provide conceptual categories for an embodied understanding of precarity, incorporating audio-visual summaries of daily/nightly activities, and health statistics on weight and blood pressure. Objective 4. In the first phase of analysing the empirical, resulted from RO1, 2 and 3, and this objective, these data has been incorporated in the updated edition (2023) of the Nightworker Charter, a communication and public anthropology engagement tool to reach out to mixed audiences (UniEUropa, and European Economic and Social Community, Brussels). This objective was in large part accomplished also by releasing Deliverable 5.4, PRECNIGHTS Policy Brief: Out of sight, Not out of mind. It is uploaded onto ECAS and Indexed in OpenAire on Zenodo repository. Ultimately, this objective will be fully accomplished through the publication of two book chapters and a short book. Book chapter: ‘The essential work of migrant women in Ireland: Connects and disconnects between hidden women nightworkers and mainstream Irish society’ (3,000 – 5,000 words book chapter); Routhledge Handbook on Nighttime Economy Book: Nightnography: Creative Methods for Nocturnal Research (Single Author / 30,000 – 40,000 words how-t0 textbook ) Bristol University / Policy Press Shorts Creative Methods Series.In line with Annex 1 of the Grant Agreement for this project, all five packages were carried out. As part of this project, there were four research objectives and three training objectives. The project has achieved most of its objectives and milestones for the period, with relatively minor deviations. The following details the work carried out during the fellowship towards the achievement of the four scientific objectives. They all informed the Research Study carried out as part of WP1: Objective 1. This objective was accomplished through 8 months of nocturnal fieldwork in Dublin and Cork. The empirical material resulting for this research objective consists of 14 audio-video interviews in Dublin and Cork with women from South America (7), South Africa (1) and Central and Eastern Europe (6). Objective 2. This objective was achieved through conducting 2 focus groups with 13 African women working as Health Care Assistants and cleaners in the care sector and private residences with elderly and hospitals in Mallow and Cork. These migrant women nightworkers balanced nightwork duties with childcare and responsibilities from transnational relationships, at and away from home. Objective 3. As with the Research Objective 2, this objective was achieved through the audio-video interviews. In addition to interviews with women migrants, I also audio-video interviewed 2 Irish males in supervising positions of women migrant nightworkers in fast-food take aways in Cork. These data (observations, field notes, interviews, summary of health data) are thematically analysed based on an interpretivist approach, that I have experience with, to provide conceptual categories for an embodied understanding of precarity, incorporating audio-visual summaries of daily/nightly activities, and health statistics on weight and blood pressure. Objective 4. In the first phase of analysing the empirical, resulted from RO1, 2 and 3, and this objective, these data has been incorporated in the updated edition (2023) of the Nightworker Charter, a communication and public anthropology engagement tool to reach out to mixed audiences (UniEUropa, and European Economic and Social Community, Brussels). This objective was in large part accomplished also by releasing Deliverable 5.4, PRECNIGHTS Policy Brief: Out of sight, Not out of mind. It is uploaded onto ECAS and Indexed in OpenAire on Zenodo repository. Ultimately, this objective will be fully accomplished through the publication of two book chapters and a short book. Book chapter: ‘The essential work of migrant women in Ireland: Connects and disconnects between hidden women nightworkers and mainstream Irish society’ (3,000 – 5,000 words book chapter); Routhledge Handbook on Nighttime Economy Book: Nightnography: Creative Methods for Nocturnal Research (Single Author / 30,000 – 40,000 words how-t0 textbook ) Bristol University / Policy Press Shorts Creative Methods Series.

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