2010
DOI: 10.1017/s1474746410000126
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Migration and Care Work in Spain: The Domestic Sector Revisited

Abstract: This paper explores the increasing significance of domestic workers in Spain, a country that has the highest figures of registered household employees in the EU, many of them female migrant workers. The paper focuses on how the domestic sector has grown in recent years along with mass migration flows. The growth of the household sector in Spain is situated within the context of the welfare and migration regimes. The household sector in Spain is currently absorbing a large part of the demand for childcare and e… Show more

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“…Selection processes involved in the migration decision along with adaptation to a normative context where late childbearing, onechild families, or even childlessness are not strongly stigmatized are possibly part of the explanation. Moreover, the late pattern of transition to first birth of all first-generation migrants and the lower rate of transition to second birth for Latin American immigrants compared to natives is likely to reflect structural constraints for immigrant women entering the formal labour market -many of whom work in the informal domestic care sector -differential opportunity structures for migrant and native women, and strong barriers to work-family conciliation (León 2010;Hobson, Hellgren, and Bede 2015). P r i o r l i t e r a t u r e h a s s h o w n t h e k e y i m p o r t a n c e o f l a b o u r m a r k e t u n c e r t a i n t y a n d employment insecurity for fertility decisions and behaviour (Kreyenfeld, Andersson, and Pailhé 2012); this effect is even greater for migrants, who face much greater obstacles in establishing themselves in the labour market than natives (Lundstrom and Andersson 2012).…”
Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Selection processes involved in the migration decision along with adaptation to a normative context where late childbearing, onechild families, or even childlessness are not strongly stigmatized are possibly part of the explanation. Moreover, the late pattern of transition to first birth of all first-generation migrants and the lower rate of transition to second birth for Latin American immigrants compared to natives is likely to reflect structural constraints for immigrant women entering the formal labour market -many of whom work in the informal domestic care sector -differential opportunity structures for migrant and native women, and strong barriers to work-family conciliation (León 2010;Hobson, Hellgren, and Bede 2015). P r i o r l i t e r a t u r e h a s s h o w n t h e k e y i m p o r t a n c e o f l a b o u r m a r k e t u n c e r t a i n t y a n d employment insecurity for fertility decisions and behaviour (Kreyenfeld, Andersson, and Pailhé 2012); this effect is even greater for migrants, who face much greater obstacles in establishing themselves in the labour market than natives (Lundstrom and Andersson 2012).…”
Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Families in Mediterranean countries rely on women and foreign domestic workers to assist in the provision of care because there is weak state support (León, 2010;Wall and Nunes, 2010;Jokela, 2015). Despite demand for such services, research shows that domestic workers in Portugal are also vulnerable to various types of abuse (Pereira and Vasconcelos, 2008).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, the role of migrant labor is located in varying institutional contexts in terms of the organization of care. In Southern European countries, such as Italy and Spain, where the public provision of care services for older people is more limited, migrant workers have been employed in the household to supplement the unpaid care of the family (Bettio et al 2006;Leó n 2010). In contrast, in countries such as the UK and Ireland, where the provision of long-term care services is more developed, albeit with significant variation and shortfalls in provision, migrant workers have been increasingly recruited in the context of market reforms to public provision.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%