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

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F18%3A00101025" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/18:00101025 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50901 - Other social sciences

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

2018

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Slovenský národopis

ISSN

1335-1303

e-ISSN

1339-9357

Svazek periodika

66

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

SK - Slovenská republika

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

239-252

Kód UT WoS článku

000448597900005

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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