?Good families? and the shadows of servitude: au pair gossip and norms of au pair employment

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

?Good families? and the shadows of servitude: au pair gossip and norms of au pair employment

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Though the conditions of au pairs? employment are vaguely defined by legislation, au pairs usually are not familiar with its details. Furthermore, the actual working and living conditions of au pairs? are controlled neither by immigration policy, nor bycommercial agencies mediating contacts between the au pairs and host families. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork amongst Slovak au pairs in London in 2004/2005, this presentation will focus on how au pairs deal with this lack of definitions andcontrol under the conditions of limited power. I will argue that their important concern is fairness of their treatment by host families: au pairs try to find out what kinds of working and living conditions are fair and whether they are staying with (what they call) ?a good family?. When au pairs judge their treatment by host families, they do not rely on any formal authority (e.g. agencies), or abstract model (e.g. legal rules).

Název v anglickém jazyce

?Good families? and the shadows of servitude: au pair gossip and norms of au pair employment

Popis výsledku anglicky

Though the conditions of au pairs? employment are vaguely defined by legislation, au pairs usually are not familiar with its details. Furthermore, the actual working and living conditions of au pairs? are controlled neither by immigration policy, nor bycommercial agencies mediating contacts between the au pairs and host families. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork amongst Slovak au pairs in London in 2004/2005, this presentation will focus on how au pairs deal with this lack of definitions andcontrol under the conditions of limited power. I will argue that their important concern is fairness of their treatment by host families: au pairs try to find out what kinds of working and living conditions are fair and whether they are staying with (what they call) ?a good family?. When au pairs judge their treatment by host families, they do not rely on any formal authority (e.g. agencies), or abstract model (e.g. legal rules).

Druh

O - Ostatní výsledky

CEP obor

AC - Archeologie, antropologie, etnologie

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GP13-11062P" target="_blank" >GP13-11062P: Placená péče o děti a domácnost v Česku a na Slovensku</a><br>

Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2014

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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