Fwd: Conférence sur la crise et les e ntreprises procurant le travail domestique aux femmes imm igrées Goldsmiths College , 29 October 2015

Je sais, on ne devrait pas mettre un message en 
anglais sur la liste, mais ça me paraît 
intéressant et très peu connu en France.

Martin

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>From: Vanessa R. Caru 
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>Date: 2015-06-01 10:58 GMT+02:00
>Subject: [AFHMT] CFP: Corporate care. Migrant 
>labour and the care industry in times of (non) 
>crisis. Goldsmiths College, 29 October 2015
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>CALL FOR PAPERS
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>Corporate care.
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>Migrant labour and the care industry in times of (non) crisis
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>A one-day conference at Goldsmiths College, New Cross, 29 October 2015
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>Deadline: June 12, 2015
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>Though unsurprisingly hitting the low-income and 
>unemployed harder than ever, the 2007-2011 
>Global Economic Crisis and subsequent politics 
>of austerity have also revealed the emergence of 
>new and unexpected trends in the West: in the 
>immediate aftermath of the crisis, both 
>non-migrant and migrant women in numerous 
>Western countries were less affected than men in 
>terms of jobs losses, though their working 
>conditions might have not improved. Subsequent 
>austerity policies, on the other hand, seem to 
>have disadvantaged women in terms of working 
>conditions, though they also appear to have 
>reinforced their commitment to paid work 
>(Karamessini and Rubery, ed., 2013; Farris, 
>2015).
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>The intertwined fate of non-migrant and migrant 
>women during and after the crisis is due to 
>their position vis-à-vis care, or social 
>reproduction. The assumption that care is a 
>"woman's job" remains firmly in place, while 
>public state care provision continues to shrink. 
>But while non-migrant women's rate of 
>participation in the workforce means that they 
>do less unpaid care work in comparison to 
>previous periods, migrant women from 
>'post-socialist' countries and the Global South 
>take on the bulk of the social reproductive 
>tasks in paid form in the booming care industry.
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>But what is the care industry? How did the crisis change its configuration?
>Studies conducted across Europe and the West in 
>the last ten years show that the care industry 
>was not negatively affected by the crisis. On 
>the contrary, the demand for care and domestic 
>service has grown rather than decreased. 
>Moreover, a process of polarization appears to 
>be impacting upon migrant workers employed in 
>the care industry: on the one hand, a 
>proliferation of domestic and care placement 
>agencies as well as so-called 'non-profit' 
>organisations (particularly in Southern Europe) 
>is increasingly meeting the growing demand for 
>carers and housekeepers by individual 
>households. Effectively functioning as 
>corporations, many of these organisations are 
>making enormous profits out of mediating for, or 
>directly exploiting, the hugely needed work of 
>migrants in the care sector. On the other hand, 
>anti-immigration policies at the national level 
>and the refusal of numerous states to issue 
>visas for care and domestic workers 
>(particularly during the first years of the 
>crisis) have pushed migrants working in this 
>sector into the underground. But rather than 
>being discouraged to employ migrants, more and 
>more families in fact rely upon "word of mouth" 
>to hire them as carers and housekeepers, as they 
>remain the most cost-effective solution for 
>their caring needs. Yet even in the underground, 
>illegal agencies and organisations profiting 
>from this flourishing industry begin to emerge.
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>With the crisis and austerity politics in the 
>background, this one day conference aims to 
>analyse this new set of dynamics by focusing 
>upon the care industry, the emergence of 
>corporate care and (female) migrant labour in 
>particular.
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>While the employment of migrant women in the 
>care industry has been widely studied, the 
>impact of the recent crisis and austerity 
>politics on female migrant labour in the care 
>sector and the boom of care placement agencies 
>has remained largely underscrutinized.
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>This conference thus aims to fill a gap in this 
>field of studies by seeking papers that address 
>the following questions in particular:
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>-     How does the increasing presence of 
>corporations and also non-profit organisations 
>in the care industry in a period of crisis and 
>austerity affect the sector?
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>-     How does the profitability of care impact 
>upon our understanding of social reproduction 
>theory in particular?
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>-     How do care and domestic placement 
>agencies change conceptions and cultures of care 
>and domestic work?
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>-     How have the crisis and austerity politics 
>transformed the working conditions of migrants 
>in the care sector in different countries?
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>Abstracts should be 300 words long and clearly 
>state the question they address. Preference will 
>be given to papers that seek to combine 
>theoretical and empirical work.
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>Deadline for submission is June 12, 2015. Please 
>send abstracts and any inquiries 
>to <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]
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>Published in 
><http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/news/distributed/cfp-corporate-care.-migrant-labour-and-the-care-industry-in-times-of-non-crisis.-goldsmiths-college-29-october-2015>http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/news/distributed/cfp-corporate-care.-migrant-labour-and-the-care-industry-in-times-of-non-crisis.-goldsmiths-college-29-october-2015
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