Paid home-based childcare in Slovakia : Informal markets and care loops

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F19%3A00107839" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/19:00107839 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0958928719873834" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0958928719873834</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0958928719873834" target="_blank" >10.1177/0958928719873834</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Paid home-based childcare in Slovakia : Informal markets and care loops
Original language description
Drawing on interviews conducted between 2013 and 2015 with childcare workers and their employers, this article focuses on the employment of paid home-based childcare in Slovakia, where local families prefer to employ local childcarers, rather than migrant childcarers. After a brief discussion of previous studies on home-based paid childcare and social policies, I introduce the concept of care loops and summarize family-oriented policies in Slovakia. I explain that relying on social networks and trust results in hiring local women rather than migrant childcarers. I then examine the motivations of working mothers for hiring childcare workers. I show how mothers use both structural (social policy) and cultural factors (ideals of motherhood and childrearing) to explain their childcare choices. I argue that hiring full-time childcare workers is both a way to fill the care gap and a response to a cultural preference for mother-like care for infants and toddlers. This cultural preference also results in hiring part-time childcare workers who are responsible for micromobilities of care and who help parents to manage care loops.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50403 - Social topics (Women´s and gender studies; Social issues; Family studies; Social work)

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
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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