Peripheral labour mobilities : elder care work between the former Yugoslavia and Germany / Tanja Višić.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Višić, Tanja, author.

Series:

Work and everyday life ; v. 23.

Work and everyday life: ethnographic studies on work cultures : volume 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women foreign workers--Germany.

Women foreign workers.

Older people--Home care--Germany.

Older people.

Women household employees--Germany.

Women household employees.

Croats--Germany.

Croats.

Bosnians--Germany.

Bosnians.

Older people--Home care.

Germany.

Physical Description:

421 pages illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Peripheral labor mobilities

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt ; New York: Campus Verlag, [2022]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Gender, Migration, and Globalization

1.1. Gender in Theories: The Main Perspectives in Studies of Migration and Mobility

1.2. Re-Visiting Dominant Concepts and Theories in Global Migration for Domestic and Care Work

ch. 2 A Critical Analytical Framework for the Ethnographic Study of Care Labour Mobilities

2.1. Peripheral Labour Mobilities

2.2. Entanglements of Mobility, Immobility, and Cross-Border Care Work

2.3. Potential of the Concept of Motility

2.4. Intersectional and Border Regime Approach

2.5. Commodification and Precarization of Care Work in Informal Care Labour Markets

2.6. A Multi-Level Analysis of Care Labour Mobilities

ch. 3 Making a Care Labour Mobility Researchable: Ethnography of Movement

3.1. Ana's Case

3.2. Multidimensionality of Ethnographic Fieldwork

3.3. Doing Interviews

3.4. Observation with Limited Participation

3.5. Reflecting on an Ethnography of Care Labour Mobilities

3.6. Short Biographical Portraits

ch. 4 Contextualizing Care Work Mobility from the Former Yugoslavia to Germany

4.1. Snezana's Case

4.2. Geopolitical, Social and Economic Contextualization: Post-Yugoslav Gendered Labour Mobility to Germany

4.3. Citizenship Policy in the Post-Yugoslav Space

4.4. Care for Germany: German Welfare, Gender and Migration Regime

ch. 5 Routes into Care Labour Mobility

5.1. Portrait: Ana Wendl

5.2. The Construction and Contextualization of Motivations and Aspirations

5.3. Access to Care Labour Mobility

5.4. Feeling, Thinking and Doing Care Work

ch. 6 "Legalization" of Everyday Life and Work in "Elder Care Labour Mobility Industry"

6.1. Portrait: Isidora Basic

6.2. Border Crossing Knowledge

6.3. Being "Illegal"

6.4. The "Care Labour Mobility Industry" - Business as Usual?

ch. 7 The Private Household as Microcosm of Social Inequalities

7.1. Portrait: Milica Jeremic

7.2. Underplaying Social Boundaries. "Du bist mein Goldstiick!"

"Well, I Am"

7.3. Highlighting Social Boundaries. "Don't Touch Me, Your Hands Are Dirty"

Conclusions

Motility for Care Labour Mobility

Structure/Agency Dilemma: Contesting Victim Narratives

Moving and Caring Across the Borders - Lessons from "the Periphery"

Phenomenology of Illegality

The Micro-Politics of Elder Care Work.

Notes:

Max-Weber Kolleg at the University of Erfurt 2021

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783593516417

3593516411

OCLC:

1355055582