Care-Arbeit politisieren: Herausforderungen der (Selbst-)Organisierung von migrantischen 24h-Betreuerinnen
Titelübersetzung:Politicize care work: challenges of the (self-)organizing of migrant 24h-caregivers
Autor/in:
Schilliger, Sarah; Schilling, Katharina
Quelle: Femina Politica - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 26 (2017) 2, S 101-116
Inhalt: "In Privathaushalten von pflegebedürftigen Menschen hat sich in Deutschland und der Schweiz in den letzten Jahren ein Niedriglohnsektor etabliert, der stark vergeschlechtlicht und ethnisiert ist. Zwar gibt es in beiden Ländern politische und gewerkschaftliche Bestrebungen, diesen Arbeitssektor zu regulieren. Doch zeigt sich im Privathaushalt generell die Schwierigkeit, dass gesetzliche Regelungen aufgrund von starken Machthierarchien und fehlender Kontrollen häufig wenig Geltungskraft entfalten. Mobilisierungen auf internationaler Ebene demonstrieren jedoch, wie migrantische Care-Arbeiterinnen durch (Selbst)Organisation eine Verbesserung ihrer Arbeits- und Lebensbedingungen erkämpfen konnten. Am Beispiel Deutschlands und der Schweiz fragen wir in unserem Beitrag nach den Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen der Politisierung von kommerzialisierter Care-Arbeit durch migrantische (Selbst-)Organisierung. Hierfür identifizieren wir zunächst die sich zeigenden Schwierigkeiten anhand von drei Faktorenbündeln: a) Arbeit in der privaten Sphäre des Haushalts; b) Displacement und limitiertes Citizenship im Kontext der Transmigration und c) unzureichende institutionelle Unterstützung. Wie es trotzdem zumindest auf lokaler Ebene zu einer bottom-up Mobilisierung in diesem Sektor kommen kann, arbeiten wir anschließend exemplarisch am Netzwerk Respekt@vpod in Basel heraus. Dabei identifizieren wir drei zentrale Strategien: a) das strategische Einfordern von Rechten und das Heraustreten aus der privaten Sphäre mithilfe von strategischer Prozessführung und öffentlicher Kampagnenarbeit; b) die Überwindung der migrationsbedingten Isolation durch einen Prozess des Emplacements, d.h. der alltäglichen sozialen Vernetzung in der migrantischen Community und c) die gelungene Zusammenarbeit auf Augenhöhe zwischen engagierten live-in Care-Arbeiterinnen und der Gewerkschaft vpod." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "In private households of elderly people in need of care, a highly gendered and ethnicized low-wage sector has emerged in Germany and Switzerland over the last few years. Despite political and trade union efforts in both countries to regulate this labor sector, there is a general difficulty to enforce legislations in private households due to strong power hierarchies and lack of controls. Mobilizations at the international level, however, demonstrate how female migrant care workers fight for the improvement of their working and living conditions through (self-)organizing. Looking at Germany and Switzerland, we investigate possibilities and challenges of the politicization of commercialized care work through migrant (self-)organizing. To this end, we first identify the difficulties that appear using three sets of factors: a) work in the private sphere of the household; b) displacement and limited citizenship in the context of transmigration and c) insufficient institutional support. Using the example of the network Respekt@vpod in Basel, we then analyze how, at least at the local level, a bottom-up mobilization in this sector is nevertheless possible. We identify three key strategies: a) the strategic demand for rights and the emergence from the private sphere through strategic law suits and public campaigning; b) overcoming the migration induced isolation by a process of emplacement, through the everyday social networking in the migrant community and c) a successful collaboration at eye level between female activist live-in care workers and the trade union." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:häusliche Pflege; home care; Privathaushalt; private household; Pflegeperson; caregiver; Niedriglohn; low wage; Prekarisierung; precariousness; Migrant; migrant; woman; Organisationen; organizations; Vernetzung; networking; Arbeitsbedingungen; working conditions; Arbeitsrecht; labor law; Gewerkschaft; trade union; Mobilisierung; mobilization; Federal Republic of Germany; Schweiz; Switzerland
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Migration, Industrie- und Betriebssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, industrielle Beziehungen
Life expectancy in Germany based on the 2011 census: was the healthy migrant effect merely an artefact?
Titelübersetzung:Lebenserwartung in Deutschland auf Basis des Zensus 2011: war der Healthy-Migrant-Effekt nur ein Artefakt?
Autor/in:
Zur Nieden, Felix; Sommer, Bettina
Quelle: Comparative Population Studies - Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft, 41 (2016) 2, S 145-174
Inhalt: "The Federal Statistical Office's 2010/12 general life table is the first to provide results on life expectancy based on census data for reunified Germany. This article therefore examines the question of how the revisions of the population figures from the 2011 census affected the measured life expectancy. To do so, we analysed both the official life tables based on the old intercensal population updates before the census and those based on the population data from the 2011 census. The method used to calculate the census-adjusted 2010/12 general life table was also transferred to separate life tables drawn up for the German and the foreign population. In this way, findings on the so-called 'healthy migrant effect' can be discussed, ruling out possible errors in the intercensal population updates. These errors had previously been cited as the main causes for a distinctly longer life expectancy among the foreign population compared with the German population. As expected, a census-based calculation for the total population and for the German population resulted in only minor revisions to the life expectancy figures. The use of the census results does, however, distinctly alter the life expectancy of foreign women and men. An advantage of over 5 years in life expectancy at birth, measured on the basis of the old population data, needs to be revised to about 2.9 years for men and 2.1 years for women based on the 2011 census. The healthy migrant effect therefore cannot be traced back solely to data artefacts from the old intercensal population updates - even with revised data, the foreign population shows marked survival advantages." (author's abstract). Online Appendix: http://dx.doi.org/10.12765/CPoS-2016-06en. Documenation: http://dx.doi.org/10.12765/CPoS-2016-07en
Schlagwörter:Bevölkerungsentwicklung; Gesundheit; Datengewinnung; Lebenserwartung; German; alien; migrant; mortality; life expectancy; Ausländer; Datenqualität; Migrant; Federal Republic of Germany; population development; census; Sterblichkeit; Deutscher; data quality; Volkszählung; data capture; health; census effects; healthy migrant effect
Socialization and gendered biographical agency in a multicultural migration context: the life history of a young Moroccan woman in Germany
Autor/in:
Al-Rebholz, Anil
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 15 (2014) 1-2, S 79-96
Inhalt: "In light of the challenges of globalization, hybridization of cultures, and transnational migration movements worldwide, some central deficits of socialization theory have been identified. As a response to these challenges, the necessity of developing 'biographical socialization research' and a 'subject-oriented socialization theory' are underlined. In this paper, the notion of 'biographical agency', embedded in the social and temporal context of biographies, is proposed to overcome shortcomings of the theories of socialization. Drawing on the concepts of biographical knowledge, biographical work and biographical reflexivity, biographical research can show how individuals develop biographical agency and engage in meaningful social actions within their life courses under the conditions of globalization. On the basis of Samira's case, I will point out the kinds of multiple exclusion/ inclusion mechanisms that operate in multicultural societies, mechanisms produced both by majority and minority groups, and how daughters of migrants can acquire biographical resources through their socialization in multicultural contexts to struggle against hierarchical gender norms, conflicting expectations, and restrictive social sites as well as enlarge their sphere of action." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Migration; migration; internationale Wanderung; international migration; Globalisierung; globalization; Transkulturalität; cross-culturality; multikulturelle Gesellschaft; multicultural society; Sozialisation; socialization; Biographie; biography; gender-specific factors; Geschlechtsrolle; gender role; Identität; identity; Religiosität; religiousness; Migrant; migrant; zweite Generation; second generation; woman; Muslim; Muslim; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; parent-child relationship; Federal Republic of Germany; biographische Methode; biographical method; Forschungsansatz; research approach; Subjektivierung; subjectivation; Intersektionalität; intersectionality; gender norms; biographical resources; multiple belongings
SSOAR Kategorie:Migration, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Soziologie von Gesamtgesellschaften, Forschungsarten der Sozialforschung
Becoming women: awareness of migration and double loyalty
Autor/in:
Gigliotti, Miriam; Odasso, Laura
Quelle: Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 15 (2014) 1-2, S 131-146
Inhalt: "Based on two case studies of adolescent daughters of migrant and mixed families in Bavaria (Germany) and in Veneto (Italy), the paper aims to study how the daughters solve the conflicting interactions between the contents of the transmission and of the socialization. Focused mostly on gendered interactions and on a sense of belonging, the reflection investigates if and how structural elements (e.g.: family configuration, national context and migration trajectories of parents) impact on continuity and discontinuity in passing on values and other sets of information. The observation of 'status passages' and 'socio-ecological transitions' in and between private and public spheres thanks to the analysis of life histories are suitable to grasp the specific effects of handing down and its interaction with the socialization over generations. This approach entails the articulation of 'time' (namely the interplay between past and present) and 'space' (namely the private and public spheres) allowing retracing the outline of the 'generational work' that each family performs consciously and unconsciously. In different geographical and socio-cultural contexts as well as in different family patterns, parenting and adolescent dynamics reveal common features. By pointing out the restructuration that adolescence imposes in life courses, we show that it is the meaning given to the parental experience of migration that entails specific form of 'loyalty' due to emotional and juridical (de)nationalized belonging, as well as to previous experiences of socialization and discrimination. The originality of the reflection is connected to the patterns of the families compared. The authors widen the concept of migration classically employed in academia introducing the innovative concept of 'migration of contact'." (author's abstract)