The Male Au Pair: "Doing Masculinity" by Performing Housework and Providing Childcare
Autor/in:
Rohde, Caterina
Quelle: Universität Bielefeld, Fak. für Soziologie, Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD); Bielefeld (COMCAD Working Papers, 129), 2014. 20 S
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Inhalt: Male au pairs responding to the "call for more men" in private and professional childcare have gained some popularity in recent years. Au pairs, both male and female, are positioned in hybrid work settings in that they not only perform housework and provide childcare, but living with families also assume roles of family members. Drawing on the concept of "doing gender", the article compares how the position of male and female au pairs is constructed by allocating specific duties to them, and how men's suitability for au pairing is legitimized. It is shown that, because a gendered division of family work continues to be the prerequisite for "doing gender", male au pairs perform only housework that is compatible with hegemonic masculinity, and that this is inherent in their main duty of functioning as male role models to aid in the socialization of the families' children when the children's fathers fail to fulfill this role.
Schlagwörter:Männlichkeit; masculinity; Hausarbeit; housework; Kinderbetreuung; child care; Auslandstätigkeit; work abroad; Rollenbild; role image; Rollenverteilung; role distribution; gender-specific factors; familiale Sozialisation; family socialization; junger Erwachsener; young adult; Doing Gender; doing gender; Gender; gender
SSOAR Kategorie:Migration, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht
Polish "handymen" in Germany: an example for the neglected "male" side of commodified reproductive work?
Autor/in:
Palenga-Möllenbeck, Ewa
Quelle: Universität Bielefeld, Fak. für Soziologie, Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD); Bielefeld (COMCAD Working Papers, 109), 2012. 10 S
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Schlagwörter:labor migration; role distribution; Betreuung; Pole; Pole; Hausarbeit; Rollenverteilung; role image; housework; Migrant; Arbeitsmigration; Federal Republic of Germany; social inequality; man; Rollenbild; labor market; Arbeitsmarkt; gender; care; migrant; Gender; child care; Mann; Kinderbetreuung; gender-specific factors; soziale Ungleichheit
SSOAR Kategorie:Arbeitsmarktforschung, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Migration
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht
Protokoll: Tagung zu "Migration(en) und Entwicklung(en): Transformation von Paradigmen, Organisationen und Geschlechterordnungen"
Titelübersetzung:Report of the conference on 'Migration(s) and Development(s): Transformation of Paradigms, Organisations and Gender'
Autor/in:
Lachenmann, Gudrun
Quelle: Universität Bielefeld, Fak. für Soziologie, Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD); Bielefeld (COMCAD Working Papers, 42), 2008. 9 S
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Schlagwörter:paradigm change; network; Paradigmenwechsel; Akteur; Migration; Globalisierung; Entwicklung; social actor; development; Entwicklungspolitik; Organisationsentwicklung; Netzwerk; Migrationspolitik; gender; migration policy; Gender; development policy; identity; organizational development; sozialer Wandel; Identität; globalization; migration; gender-specific factors; social change
SSOAR Kategorie:Migration
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht
Conference report: "Migration(s) and Development(s) - Transformation of Paradigms, Organisations, and Gendered Orders"
Autor/in:
Aikins, Joshua Kwesi
Quelle: Universität Bielefeld, Fak. für Soziologie, Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development (COMCAD); Bielefeld (COMCAD Working Papers, 43), 2008. 10 S
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Schlagwörter:paradigm change; network; Paradigmenwechsel; Akteur; Migration; Globalisierung; Entwicklung; social actor; development; Entwicklungspolitik; Organisationsentwicklung; Netzwerk; Migrationspolitik; gender; migration policy; Gender; development policy; identity; organizational development; sozialer Wandel; Identität; globalization; migration; gender-specific factors; social change
SSOAR Kategorie:Migration
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht