Choosing the right age group? : intersectional analysis of demand for paid domestic workers in Slovakia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/06191835sn2-2018-sekerakova-burikova.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.sav.sk/journals/uploads/06191835sn2-2018-sekerakova-burikova.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.26363/SN.2018.2.05" target="_blank" >10.26363/SN.2018.2.05</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Choosing the right age group? : intersectional analysis of demand for paid domestic workers in Slovakia

Original language description

Drawing upon interviews with paid carers and their employers undertaken in Bratislava and Banská Bystrica between the years 2013 – 2015, this article focuses on employment of paid domestic workers (nannies, babysitters, and cleaners) in Slovakia. This research focuses on the situation, which is globally unusual: unlike in Slovakia, where paid domestic workers are local women, paid domestic work is generally undertaken mostly by migrant women or women coded as ethnically other. In general, employment of paid domestic work operates on the base of ethnic hierarchies: women belonging to particular ethnic groups are seen as more or less suitable domestic workers. Analysing demand for nannies, babysitters and cleaners in Slovakia, this article argues that employers of local paid domestic workers do not use ethnicity but age as connoting particular qualities considered as necessary for undertaking paid care or housework. In particular, specific age groups are seen as more or less suitable for doing particular types of paid domestic work (e.g. cleaning, daily care for an infant, babysitting). After describing in detail how employers categorise paid domestic workers according to their age, I will reveal that in decisions of who to employ the age does not operate as an isolated individual category. Rather, it operates in intersection with other categories such as gender and can be understood only when we adopt an intersectional perspective.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50901 - Other social sciences

Project

<a href="/en/project/GP13-11062P" target="_blank" >GP13-11062P: Paid Childcare and Domestic Work in the Czech Republic and Slovakia</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Slovenský národopis

ISSN

1335-1303

e-ISSN

1339-9357

Volume of the periodical

66

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

239-252

UT code for WoS article

000448597900005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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