Συγγραφέας
Psimmenos Iordanis
Τίτλος
The welfare orientations of immigrant domestic workers in Greece
Περιοδικό
Επιθεώρηση Κοινωνικών Ερευνών
Τεύχος
136, 225–248
Έτος
2011
Σύνδεσμος
https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.51
Περίληψη (Συγγραφέα)
The language of welfare reflects not only life chances and redistributive practices that reduce income risks, but also occupational norms and welfare orientations. The article examines the case of immigrant domestic workers and how they relate to state welfare services. Through a reappraisal of the social significance of their job, it is argued that women workers are not only pushed but also pulled by a rising work culture which establishes a life into the margins of state welfare. The findings indicate that after a period of at least ten years in Greece and despite their legal entry or periodic legalisation in the country, their stable employment and their initial attempts to register with state welfare agencies, domestic workers are gradually distancing themselves from formal social insurance schemes. In addition to the existing analyses on the subject, it is suggested here that apart from work conditions, job customs and values seem also to reinforce welfare orientations that are more in line with paternalistic, informal and personality-based understandings and strategies of care.
Λέξεις-Κλειδιά (Συγγραφέα)
Ετικέτες
μετανάστευση-προσφυγικό, επισφάλεια, ανισότητες και διακρίσεις στην εργασία, νομοθεσία-πολιτικές
Επιστημονικό Πεδίο
Κοινωνιολογία
Παρατηρήσεις
Special Issue: Contemporary social inequalities. Editor: Iordanis Psimmenos.
Βιβλιογραφική Αναφορά
Psimmenos, I. (2011). The welfare orientations of immigrant domestic workers in Greece. The Greek Review of Social Research, 136, 225–248. https://doi.org/10.12681/grsr.51