Drawing on ethnographic data the paper explores how national informal paid male care workers in child and elder care employ the strategy of professionalization and a vision of care entrepreneurship in order to distance themselves from feminized and racialized definitions and practices of care work. It is analyzed how inclusion of national men in informal care economies, along with women and migrants, might in some respect reinforce gendered and racialised segmentations and hierarchies in care work.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 985197Based on individual interviews author locates Slovenian care workers who daily commute to Italy in order to perform cleaning, child and elderly caring in private housholds in contemporary care chains. The main purpose is to identify specific characteristics of informal care work in this micro border region between Italy and Slovenia, and to highlight exceptional position of Slovenian care workers in contemporary global economies.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 985709On plenary leacture the latest trends in research projects related to higher education graduates have been presented.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 32034141