Descrizione del progetto
Scoprire le realtà nascoste del lavoro domestico retribuito
Il lavoro domestico retribuito può servire come lente per esaminare l’impatto della globalizzazione sulle disuguaglianze sociali. Con 52,6 milioni di lavoratori domestici in tutto il mondo, di cui 43 milioni sono donne e 7 milioni sono bambini, le ripercussioni della globalizzazione su questo settore sono ingenti. Il progetto DomEQUAL, finanziato dal CER, mira a fornire un’analisi globale completa delle posizioni sociali dei lavoratori domestici retribuiti. Ciò include l’esame della loro posizione socio-economica e legale, utilizzando al contempo un approccio di «intersezionalità» su larga scala. Con un confronto diacronico che va dagli anni Cinquanta a oggi, DomEQUAL si concentra su nove paesi (Brasile, Colombia, Ecuador, Germania, India, Italia, Filippine, Spagna e Taiwan) che offrono prospettive diverse a causa della loro differente posizione nel mondo globalizzato.
Obiettivo
How does globalisation impact the construction of social inequality? DomEQUAL tackles this question through a study on paid domestic work (PDW). Of the 52.6 million PDWs in the world today, 43 million are women and 7 million are children. The multidimensional transformations brought about by globalisation with the intensification of international migration, the urbanisation of rural and indigenous populations, and changes in household organisation and welfare regimes have a massive impact on PDWs at the global level.
New research possibilities are open since PDW has become an object of global governance. The ILO Convention 189 is the most evident sign of this. For researchers, this has the important effect of making new data and tools for analysis available. DomEQUAL profits from this opportunity to provide a global comparison of PDWs’ social positions, especially in the socio-economic and legal fields. It also provides the opportunity to experiment an ‘intersectionality’ approach to PDW on a large scale. Finally, it analyses which type of global/local actor is more effective in improving the legal framework for PDWs. In so doing, it aims at a theoretical and methodological contribution that goes beyond PDW and addresses the construction of social inequalities within globalisation more generally.
This is done through a diachronic comparison (1950s-now) of the changing situation of PDWs in the following countries: Spain, Italy and Germany in Europe; Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil in South America; and India, the Philippines and Taiwan in Asia. These nine countries are interesting cases for comparison because of their different positions within the process of globalisation, the specificities of their socio-cultural contexts, and also because they have all experienced mobilisations for PDWs’ rights. The project will be carried out by the PI and two senior post-doc researchers based in Italy, with the support of nine experts in the selected countries.
Campo scientifico
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Meccanismo di finanziamento
ERC-STG - Starting GrantIstituzione ospitante
30123 Venezia
Italia