GENDER, TRANSNATIONAL FEMALE MIGRATION AND DOMESTIC WORK IN GREECE: AN INTERSECTIONAL REVIEW OF RESEARCH ON FEMALE MIGRANTS’ ACCESS TO LABOUR, HEALTHCARE AND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS
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| author | Theodoros Fouskas |
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| contents | GENDER, TRANSNATIONAL FEMALE MIGRATION AND DOMESTIC WORK IN GREECE: AN INTERSECTIONAL REVIEW OF RESEARCH ON FEMALE MIGRANTS’ ACCESS TO LABOUR, HEALTHCARE AND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS Theodoros Fouskas Paraskevi Gikopoulou Elisavet Ioannidi George Koulierakis Sociología women Gender Greece migration healthcare In global labour markets, migrant workers are mainly found in precarious, low-status/ low-wage occupations in undeclared work and the underground/informal sector of the economy which demands a low paid, uninsured, mobile, temporary and fexible workforce. This article argues that migrant women are mostly employed as domestic workers in various countries that demand precarious, low-status/low-wage service workers and personal services. Feminist scholarship on migration underlines, that social constructions of gender and racial stereotypes drive men and women into specifc roles and therefore dictate their experiences. Social constructions of gender cannot be considered separate from social constructions of class, gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality; female migrants are disassociated from family relationships, community associations, solidarity networks, and become susceptible to discrimination based on race and ethnicity, class and gender in the reception countries. This article provides an intersectional review of research on domestic work, healthcare and community networks in Greece (1990- 2018). Intersectionality produces assumptions set in women’s race and ethnicity, projecting unequal labour rights among sexes in Greece. Gender, race and ethnicity subject women to obedience, susceptibility and exploitation, confning them to domestic work, and low-paid jobs without social rights. Last but not least, this article suggests that ethnic background and unstable legal residence status works as a mechanism of control and suppression, which in turn force female migrants to accept low wages, refrain from demanding healthcare services and from seeking support from migrant community associations. Employers confscate their documents, monitor them and threaten to report them to the authorities, thus institutionalising exploitation, leading to forceful application of discipline, consent, subordination, obedience and dependency of domestic workers. 2019 artículo científico 2382-4018 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=737481052007 es http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=7374 Collectivus, revista de ciencias sociales application/pdf Universidad del Atlántico Collectivus, revista de ciencias sociales (Colombia) Num.1 Vol.6 |
| format | Artículo científico |
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| language | es |
| publishDate | 2019 |
| publisher | Universidad del Atlántico |
| spellingShingle | GENDER, TRANSNATIONAL FEMALE MIGRATION AND DOMESTIC WORK IN GREECE: AN INTERSECTIONAL REVIEW OF RESEARCH ON FEMALE MIGRANTS’ ACCESS TO LABOUR, HEALTHCARE AND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS Theodoros Fouskas Sociología women Gender Greece migration healthcare GENDER, TRANSNATIONAL FEMALE MIGRATION AND DOMESTIC WORK IN GREECE: AN INTERSECTIONAL REVIEW OF RESEARCH ON FEMALE MIGRANTS’ ACCESS TO LABOUR, HEALTHCARE AND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS Theodoros Fouskas Paraskevi Gikopoulou Elisavet Ioannidi George Koulierakis Sociología women Gender Greece migration healthcare In global labour markets, migrant workers are mainly found in precarious, low-status/ low-wage occupations in undeclared work and the underground/informal sector of the economy which demands a low paid, uninsured, mobile, temporary and fexible workforce. This article argues that migrant women are mostly employed as domestic workers in various countries that demand precarious, low-status/low-wage service workers and personal services. Feminist scholarship on migration underlines, that social constructions of gender and racial stereotypes drive men and women into specifc roles and therefore dictate their experiences. Social constructions of gender cannot be considered separate from social constructions of class, gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality; female migrants are disassociated from family relationships, community associations, solidarity networks, and become susceptible to discrimination based on race and ethnicity, class and gender in the reception countries. This article provides an intersectional review of research on domestic work, healthcare and community networks in Greece (1990- 2018). Intersectionality produces assumptions set in women’s race and ethnicity, projecting unequal labour rights among sexes in Greece. Gender, race and ethnicity subject women to obedience, susceptibility and exploitation, confning them to domestic work, and low-paid jobs without social rights. Last but not least, this article suggests that ethnic background and unstable legal residence status works as a mechanism of control and suppression, which in turn force female migrants to accept low wages, refrain from demanding healthcare services and from seeking support from migrant community associations. Employers confscate their documents, monitor them and threaten to report them to the authorities, thus institutionalising exploitation, leading to forceful application of discipline, consent, subordination, obedience and dependency of domestic workers. 2019 artículo científico 2382-4018 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=737481052007 es http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=7374 Collectivus, revista de ciencias sociales application/pdf Universidad del Atlántico Collectivus, revista de ciencias sociales (Colombia) Num.1 Vol.6 |
| title | GENDER, TRANSNATIONAL FEMALE MIGRATION AND DOMESTIC WORK IN GREECE: AN INTERSECTIONAL REVIEW OF RESEARCH ON FEMALE MIGRANTS’ ACCESS TO LABOUR, HEALTHCARE AND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS |
| topic | Sociología women Gender Greece migration healthcare |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=737481052007 |