Papers by Gabriela Poblet
Una reflexión sobre el derecho a vivir en familia de mujeres migrantes latinoamericanas trabajado... more Una reflexión sobre el derecho a vivir en familia de mujeres migrantes latinoamericanas trabajadoras del hogar en Barcelona, analizando los conceptos de reciprocidad y don, desde la antropología.
Esta ponencia es producto de una investigación etnográfica llevada a cabo en 2009 sobre las diver... more Esta ponencia es producto de una investigación etnográfica llevada a cabo en 2009 sobre las diversas redes de reclutamiento y formas de acceso a un empleo en el sector doméstico, que utilizan mujeres inmigradas en Barcelona procedentes de diversos países de América Latina. Como la mayoría de estas mujeres se encuentra en situación irregular, las bolsas de trabajo de las cuales hacen uso no son las gestionadas por organismos oficiales, sino por determinadas ONG’s o fundaciones, agencias privadas y sobre todo, por religiosas de congregaciones de la Iglesia Católica que operan en la ciudad en el marco de la caridad. El objetivo de este artículo es dar a conocer estas formas de acceso al empleo doméstico en la ciudad de Barcelona y sus formas de funcionamiento, así como también demostrar las implicancias y consecuencias que tienen en la inserción laboral de las mujeres inmigradas en un contexto internacional de globalización del trabajo reproductivo.
Migrant Domestic Workers and Family Life, 2015
Some women have the option of living with their children, while others do no" (Parreñas 2005) fam... more Some women have the option of living with their children, while others do no" (Parreñas 2005) families, migrant domestic workers are absent in the discourses of "family-work conciliation" policies. Paradoxically, the right to care for and live with their own family is denied based on her obligations to care for other families. This chapter is based on doctoral research about domestic workers from Latin American in Barcelona, Spain 1 . The aim is to analyse different strategies that migrant domestic workers carry out in order to exercise their right to a family life. For this ethnographic research I interviewed 40 migrant women from different countries of Latin American 2 but only chose five cases to analyse for this chapter. These women came from Bolivia, Dominican Republican, Honduras and Peru. Although they are working as domestic workers they situation differ. Two women are elder carers of middle class families, and are both under live-in regimen. The other three are domestic workers for upper class families, two of them in households with small children. The composition of the domestic worker's families vary, too. Two women have had a baby in Barcelona while they have been working, and the other three women have children at school-age. The reason for choosing this sample of five women is to demonstrate the heterogeneity of cases, linked to different status of local families. In discussing these cases, the first part of this chapter reviews the relationship between immigration regulations, domestic service and public policies. The second part focuses on the mobility from live-in to the live-out regimen during the process of family reunification. In this context, the relationships and the negotiations between employers and employees seem crucial to understand the reproduction of social class relationships. Due to the social and demographical changes of the past three decadesfrom which most refer to the aging population and the employment of middle-class women-Spanish families, compared to previous generations, are forced to devise other ways of managing care responsibilities. As more Spanish women enter the labor force, it resulted in the destabilization of the traditional sexual division of labour model and the division of responsibilities for the care and sustainability of family life, leading to other ways to reorganize care work (Carrasco 2001 and 2005; Perez Orozco 2006; Ezquerra 2012). The "solution" to this crisis has come from the global South, mainly from Latin American and Eastern Europe. Just like other regions in the world, gendered inequalities and income gap caused that, among others individual factors, many women from Latin American countries make the decision to migrate and find jobs as domestic workers or carers of elderly people in Spain.
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