Project description
Migrant care workers in Europe
In Europe, paid migrant domestic and care workers (PMDCWers) are usually invisible, especially those who are people of colour from working-class migrant communities. Although research has centred on women in this industry, male migrant workers also work in this industry. In this context, the ERC-funded DoingDOM project will investigate life histories by South Asian men and women living and working in Naples, Italy (a long-standing site of PMDCW). The results will provide insights into how race, gender, class, and immigrant status intersect to shape workers’ daily lives. DoingDOM seeks to dispel stereotypes and simplistic labels to provide a more comprehensive picture of this critical but ignored workforce.
Objective
This project is about paid migrant domestic and care workers (PMDCWers), both women and men, who are people of colour from working-class, minority migrant communities that remain ‘invisible’ in the country where they work and live. Paid migrant domestic and care work (PMDCW) is a crucial labour sector dominated by migrant women and therefore researched predominantly from the perspective of women migrants with backgrounds in minority communities. International migration means employment in this sector is also becoming a possibility for migrant men, which is largely understudied. This project will fill this knowledge gap. It will focus on Sri Lankan women and men engaged in PMDCW, who represent a hidden and understudied though important community of longstanding migrant workers in Europe. While contributing to a non-mainstream perspective on PMDCW, this project will address the risk of stereotyping and oversimplifying the dynamic, diverse and vibrant lived experiences of PMDCWers under the broad labels: ‘minority migrant workers’, ‘low-end workers’, ‘ethnic minorities’ and ‘people of colour’. The project stresses that more research is needed to fully comprehend the spectrum of lived realities experienced by PMDCWers at the intersection of gender, class, race, nationality, religion, immigrant status and other forms of inequality, as well as the ways in which power, privilege and discrimination are mapped onto gendered–racialized migrant bodies. It will focus on the southern European city of Naples in Italy, with a significant tradition of PMDCW and home to a well-established community of Sri Lankan migrants, most of whom are PMDCWers. Given its interdisciplinary nature, the project will use mixed methods and methodological triangulation. It will thus probe the embodied intersectional experiences of Sri Lankan women and men living in the interstices of the Italian/Neapolitan PMDCW sector from more than one standpoint, enabling more meaningful conclusions to be drawn.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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30123 Venezia
Italy
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