Costs and Benefits of Labour Migration for Ukrainian Transnational Families: Connection or Consumption?

Tolstokorova, Alissa

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“…The effects of migration are thus extended to the well-being of members not participating in migration, which, according to Mazzucato and Schans (2011), should be understood as psychological, educational and health outcomes. Several studies reported relevant effects on family well-being, organisation and vulnerability (see, among others, Golinowska, 2008; Tolstokorova, 2009; Roman and Voicu, 2010; Boccagni, 2010; Bogdan, 2011; Alexe et al , 2012; Markova, 2015; Tosi and Impicciatore, 2022). Shipment of goods or sending money is not marginal as both allow a surrogacy mechanism that keeps active the affective bonds with the left behind (Vianello, 2009).…”

Section: Care Workers: Between Migration and Transnationalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Romanian transnational families: insights from a qualitative study on care workers

Salaris,

Tedesco

2024

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Purpose An increasing number of international immigrant workers enter the EU labour market to fill the gap in many key economic sectors. Labour migration often implies a process of family adaptation and, in some cases, a breakdown in the community structure and networks. This study aims to provide insights into the dynamics of transnational families, focusing on changes in the redefinition of roles within family members and children care arrangements. Design/methodology/approach The study was based on the analysis of 12 biographical interviews conducted using semi-structured interviews between November 2018 and December 2019 among Romanian women who worked as caregivers in families in an Italian metropolitan city and the surrounding urban area. Findings Despite the economic dimension being essential, psychological well-being increasingly burdens workers’ migratory experience and that of their family members. Findings suggest including employers and children among the actively involved actors of the family decision-making process; working and contractual conditions as factors that significantly impact the opportunities and capability of workers to provide and receive care, mainly if the latter are employed in the informal market. Originality/value The study makes it possible to highlight that the dynamics in decision-making processes in transnational families change in the different phases of the migration project and involve numerous actors. These processes are not always rational and are strongly influenced by the labour market structure in which migrants are employed.

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Section: Care Workers: Between Migration and Transnationalismmentioning

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Romanian transnational families: insights from a qualitative study on care workers

Salaris,

Tedesco

2024

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“…While gender has recently become a recognised focus in studies of transnational migration (Donato et al, 2006; McIlwaine, 2010), less attention has been paid to the gendered nature of other forms of transnational mobility, such as CBST. Within the Ukrainian context, recent research has highlighted how demand stemming from southern Europe, and Italy in particular, has incorporated Ukrainian women into global care chains (Bettio et al, 2006; Tolstokorova, 2009a, 2009b and 2010). The growth in opportunities for care workers has been developing at a time when the availability of occupations dominated by male migrants, such as construction work (Dickinson, 2005), has been decreasing.…”

Section: The Feminisation Of Transnational Migrationmentioning

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Gender relations and cross-border small trading in the Ukrainian–Romanian borderlands

Cassidy

2013

European Urban and Regional Studies

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European Union (EU) enlargement and the later shaping of its relationships with its new Eastern neighbours through the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) have had a significant impact on communities outside the EU’s borders. As the EU has sought to control flows of people, money and goods through these new borders, it has also become a destination for irregular migrants and small-scale traders from its eastern neighbours. This article draws upon participant observation in one such community in western Ukraine, where continuing levels of high unemployment and low wages and pensions drive dependence on flows of remittances from migrants to southern Europe, but also revenues from small-scale trade with neighbouring EU members, such as Romania. New forms of transnational mobility have emerged, which are not gender-neutral. The article asserts that, while hegemonic masculinities exist in both Ukrainian and Romanian communities, gender relations in Romania are restricted by sexualised discourses. As male and female Ukrainian traders interact with Romanian border officials and local distributors and intermediaries, hegemonic masculinities in Ukraine are re-affirmed and female traders are unable to advance and develop their trade in the same way as their male counterparts. In doing so, the article expands research on gender and transnationalism in post-enlargement Europe beyond migration and demonstrates not only how encounters at the EU’s borders are shaping gender relations in communities outside the EU, but that involvement in cross-border economic activities is determined by the gendered discourses and performance that take place at the border.

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“…One of the key factors driving the feminisation of migrant labour observed in Diyalivtsi has been escalating demand for care workers, particularly in Italy and Southern Europe. Female Ukrainian migrants have been estimated to make up 90.2 per cent of migrant workers in Italy, 65 per cent in Spain and 75.5 per cent in Greece (Tolstokorova, 2009a). Demand for female care workers has been developing at a time when the availability of traditionally male migrant occupations, such as construction work, has been decreasing.…”

Section: The Ukrainian‐romanian Borderlandsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although some of this work had initially been in construction, more recently there had been a feminisation of migration, as women moved to Italy to work as carers in Italian homes. For more on the feminisation of migration, see Tolstokorova (2010, 2009a, b).…”

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Performing the cross‐border economies of post‐socialism

Cassidy

2011

Int J of Soc & Social Policy

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the challenge of interpreting the growth in arbitrage opportunities at the Ukrainian‐Romanian border within a rural Ukrainian border community. The author illustrates that whilst the proliferation of economic activity through the border has provided a boost to the local economy, it has also led to the development of discursive performance around these practices within rural Ukrainian communities, which both mitigates the potentially negative impacts of economic growth in Romania and also reflects emerging views of consumption as a cultural competence.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws on more than 18 months of participant observation in three rural communities on either side of the Ukrainian‐Romanian border between September 2007 and May 2010.FindingsThe discursive performance of consumption has emerged as an important means for the production of values amongst the low income households of Diyalivtsi (pseudonym). As part of this performance, the villagers of Diyalivtsi differentiate themselves from their Romanian neighbours through critical analysis of Romanian consumption practices, which are viewed through the prism of cross‐border economies.Originality/valueThis is one of the first papers to consider how the diverse economies of post‐socialism are (re)performed in the communities in which they have become embedded. Rather than seeking to theorise or quantify cross‐border economies and the practices of trading and consumption, it illuminates the social aspects of them for rural Ukrainian communities.

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Costs and Benefits of Labour Migration for Ukrainian Transnational Families: Connection or Consumption?

Cited by 8 publications

References 2 publications

Romanian transnational families: insights from a qualitative study on care workers

Romanian transnational families: insights from a qualitative study on care workers

Gender relations and cross-border small trading in the Ukrainian–Romanian borderlands

Performing the cross‐border economies of post‐socialism

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