2021
DOI: 10.31577/sociologia.2021.53.5.19
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Crisis as Catalyst? Romanian Migrant Care Workers in Italian Home-Based Care Arrangements

Abstract: Crisis as Catalyst? Romanian Migrant Care Workers in Italian Home-Based Care Arrangements. The COVID-19 crisis in Italy has brought to public attention the labour of almost one million migrant care workers (MCWs) who care for older Italian persons in their homes. Over the past three decades, the migrant-in-the-family model has become one of the main pillars of eldercare provision in Italy. The increase of this kind of care is analysed with a mixed-method approach, using official statistics, secondary literatur… Show more

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“…However, the federations CGIL and CISL have quotas for women in leadership positions (50 per cent and 30 per cent, respectively). Filcams-CGIL shared membership data showing that in 2019, 63 per cent of their 578,045 members were women and 22 per cent were migrants, primarily from Romania, Morocco, Ukraine and Moldavia, which overlapped with the most prominent migrant domestic workers' nationalities (except Morocco) in Italy (Seiffarth 2021). All trade union federations recognize migrants' particular needs and have specific service points to help (undocumented) non-Italians with residence permits, family reunification and other issues.…”
Section: The Limits Of Representationmentioning
confidence: 97%
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“…However, the federations CGIL and CISL have quotas for women in leadership positions (50 per cent and 30 per cent, respectively). Filcams-CGIL shared membership data showing that in 2019, 63 per cent of their 578,045 members were women and 22 per cent were migrants, primarily from Romania, Morocco, Ukraine and Moldavia, which overlapped with the most prominent migrant domestic workers' nationalities (except Morocco) in Italy (Seiffarth 2021). All trade union federations recognize migrants' particular needs and have specific service points to help (undocumented) non-Italians with residence permits, family reunification and other issues.…”
Section: The Limits Of Representationmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…Since a residency permit is a prerequisite for formal employment, undocumented migrants can only be employed informally and thus become more vulnerable to exploitative working conditions. At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic during the strict lockdown in 2020, there was an increase in registrations of live-in workers because families feared reper cussions if their domestic worker was found to be unregistered by authorities who were checking documents to implement movement restrictions (for example, when domestic workers did the family's grocery shopping) (Seiffarth 2021). The increase in registrations resulted in, inter alia, a significant drop in the rate of informality (see figure 1).…”
Section: Contribution To Formalizationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…exploiter. En 2020, pendant le confinement strict décrété au début de la pandémie de COVID-19, l'immatriculation de travailleurs domestiques logés par leur employeur a progressé, les familles craignant d'être sanctionnées si leur employé était contrôlé dans le cadre de l'application des restrictions de mouvement (pendant qu'il faisait leurs courses par exemple) et si les autorités découvraient à cette occasion qu'il n'était pas déclaré (Seiffarth, 2021). Cette hausse des immatriculations s'est traduite, entre autres, par une baisse sensible du taux d'informalité (figure 1).…”
Section: Contribution à La Formalisationunclassified
“…Pourtant, les fédérations CGIL et CISL appliquent des quotas concernant le pourcentage de postes hiérarchiques devant être occupés par des femmes (50 pour cent dans le cas de la CGIL et 30 pour cent pour la CISL). Le syndicat Filcams-CGIL a fourni des données dont il ressort qu'en 2019 63 pour cent de ses 578 045 adhérents étaient des femmes et 22 pour cent des migrants, principalement originaires de Roumanie, du Maroc, de l'Ukraine et de la Moldova, ce qui correspond aussi à la répartition par pays d'origine des migrants vivant en Italie (exception faite du Maroc) (Seiffarth, 2021). Reconnaissant que les migrants ont des besoins spécifiques, toutes les fédérations syndicales ont mis en place des services spécialisés pour les aider, par exemple à obtenir un titre de séjour ou encore à faire venir leur famille au titre du regroupement familial.…”
Section: Limites De La Représentationunclassified
“…Al principio de la pandemia de COVID-19, durante las estrictas medidas de confinamiento adoptadas en 2020, se produjo un aumento de las afiliaciones de trabajadores internos en la seguridad social, porque las familias temían posibles sanciones si las autoridades, que comprobaban los documentos en aplicación de las restricciones de movilidad, descubrían que el personal doméstico no estaba dado de alta (por ejemplo, cuando los trabajadores domésticos hacían las compras de la familia) (Seiffarth 2021). El aumento de la afiliación a la seguridad social se tradujo, entre otras cosas, en un descenso significativo de la tasa de informalidad (véase el gráfico 1).…”
Section: Contribución a La Formalizaciónunclassified