A pesquisa analisa o consumo cultural (especialmente de rádio e televisão) de um grupo de empregadas domésticas que trabalham na cidade de São Paulo. Por meio de um mapeamento das preferências culturais dessas trabalhadoras organizadas nos perfis românticas, descoladas e evangélicas , discuto a importância dessas mídias no universo estudado. Paralelamente, a partir da análise de representações das empregadas domésticas na televisão, em especial, por meio da uma análise compartilhada da telenovela Cheias de Charme (Globo, 2012, 19h30), avalio as transformações ocorridas na imagem da empregada doméstica na ficção e na vida real , explorando a passagem de trabalhadora pobre para consumidora da classe C. Nesse contexto, temáticas como trabalho doméstico, gênero, classe, cor, consumo e mídias são relacionadas. / The research analyses the cultural consumption (particularly television and radio) of domestic workers in São Paulo (SP). Through mapping the cultural preferences of these women workers divided in three profiles, romantic, up to date and evangelic I raise reflections on the importance of these media among them. In parallel, through the analyses of domestic workers representations in television, in particular in the telenovela Cheias de Charme (Globo, 2012, 19h30), I discuss the transformations on the image of these workers in fiction and in real life exploring the passage from poor workers to class C consumers. In this context, issues such as domestic labor, gender, class, race, consumption and media are interrelated.

This thesis explores globalization’s effects on female migrant domestic workers in Latin America by examining the socioeconomic and political status of Paraguayan and Peruvian domestic workers in Argentina. Through this research, I answer several key questions. First, how does globalization shape neoliberal markets that enforce the exploitative structures of domestic labor? Second, how is gender inequality present in governmental and social discrimination? Third, do the costs of transnational care labor outweigh the benefits? The former two questions are answered by the rising demand for care labor and resulting global care chains that fuel greater cross-border migration and statelessness of female migrants. Additionally, cultural and familial pressures magnify the sexual division of labor and maintain domestic labor’s low social status. Using a gender analysis, I address the last question by concluding that gender inequalities through governmental and social discrimination, plus emotional-familial burdens, outweigh domestic labor’s short-sighted financial prospects and autonomy provided by globalization.

MGS / Department of Youth and Gender Studies / See the attached abstract below

By caring for children, the elders and the ill, care workers are fundamental for the global economy and for peoples’ well-being. As confirmed in this thesis, the majority of domestic workers are migrant women. Historically, however, women’s work has been unpaid, considered unproductive, and the significance of (migrant) women’s care work has widely been ignored in state policies. Arguing that migration research has overlooked the gender-migration- development nexus, the aim of this thesis was to examine the Filipino-American care chain. Through a feminist and intersectional perspective, this study showed how the creation of Filipino women as “natural caregivers” reproduce stereotypical images of female migrants as “others”. This paper was based on material gathering from a mixed method, and also demonstrated how care is organised around remittances and transnational parenting. Finally, this thesis concluded that the unequal distribution of care work is dependent on young women migrant workers taking on care and household responsibilities.

Until recently, the legal position of domestic workers in South Africa could be described as a relic of the nineteenth century, when the contract of employment and the common law defined the employer-employee relationship. The legal rules which regulate the relationship between the domestic worker and her employer are examined. International labour standards and the legal position of domestic workers in other countries are considered. Cognisance is taken of the social phenomenon which finds domestic workers at the convergence of three lines along which inequality is generated, namely gender, race and class. Furthermore, the unique economic forces at play in this sector are examined. The law will be stretched to its limits when attempting to resolve what is, essentially, a socio-economic problem. However, the working lives of a million people are at stake. The legislature has a constitutional, political and moral responsibility to attend to reform in this sector as a matter of urgency. / Private Law / LL.M.

Until recently, the legal position of domestic workers in South Africa could be described as a relic of the nineteenth century, when the contract of employment and the common law defined the employer-employee relationship. The legal rules which regulate the relationship between the domestic worker and her employer are examined. International labour standards and the legal position of domestic workers in other countries are considered. Cognisance is taken of the social phenomenon which finds domestic workers at the convergence of three lines along which inequality is generated, namely gender, race and class. Furthermore, the unique economic forces at play in this sector are examined. The law will be stretched to its limits when attempting to resolve what is, essentially, a socio-economic problem. However, the working lives of a million people are at stake. The legislature has a constitutional, political and moral responsibility to attend to reform in this sector as a matter of urgency. / Private Law / LL.M.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T15:32:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 De casa para outras casas.pdf: 4123337 bytes, checksum: e89c1b907c7d941f89edf08dcc779fe5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-12-12 / The origin of female domestic labor in Brazil is linked to the slavery period, in this way; it is marked by racial bias. Despite the remote origin, domestic workers as workers remain stigmatized marginally included in society and the world of work. Negative social representations relating to the origin and nature of the occupation (work servile, degrading, naturalized women, disqualified, "service in black", etc.). Have always been part of the collective imagination and the social life of women, who perform this function, it was expressed covertly in various locations and social situations. For this it is essential question: How social representations on women, and poor domestic worker, crystallized in the social imaginary collective (society sexist, racist and class) influence on the various dimensions of life of this group of women, whether in social, affective, professional ,...? And yet: What are the ties they establish with the local daily basis by which they move? In particular regarding the establishment of the place - "the extent appropriate space and lived through the body? The guiding lines of study are the categories gender, race, corporality, domestic workers, social representations, trajectories sociogeographic, segregation / exclusion and place. Considering the above, the purpose of this study is to analyze the phenomenon of segregation / exclusion socio in view of domestic workers who work and live in Goiânia in the city of Aparecida de Goiânia, trying to identify their sociogeographic trajectories - "Spacely differential" - and understand that the bonds they establish with the local women who attend, and the main elements in the establishment of such ties. The path opened by the Human Geography in the 1970s, with the introduction of new issues on the production of space by mankind, required expansion and diversification of its theoretical and methodological until the "new geographies" current, neglected geographies in fact, taken and informal look at the scientific tradition, that in the contemporary beginning to gain visibility, which this work aims to contribute. The search (multi / trans / inter) disciplinary approach to quality, flexible and multi methodological, had the contribution of workers who daily move from their homes to the workplace whose life stories were recorded by means of semi-structured individual interviews recorded. The content of the interviews sought to seize the items "subjective" account for the displacements and corporality of workers, that is, their condition of poor women, domestic workers, black or white. / A origem do trabalho doméstico feminino no Brasil está vinculada ao período escravagista, deste modo é marcado pelo viés racial. Apesar da origem remota, trabalhadoras domésticas persistem como trabalhadoras estigmatizadas, incluídas marginalmente na sociedade e no mundo do trabalho. Representações sociais negativas relacionadas à origem e natureza da profissão (trabalho servil, aviltante, naturalizadamente feminino, desqualificado, serviço de preto , etc.) sempre fizeram parte do imaginário social coletivo e do cotidiano das mulheres que desempenham esta função, se manifestando dissimuladamente em vários locais e situa-ções sociais. Para tanto é imprescindível questionar: Como as representações sociais sobre a mulher, pobre e trabalhadora doméstica, cristalizadas no imaginário social coletivo (sociedade sexista, racista e de classes) influenciam nas várias dimensões da vida deste grupo de mulhe-res, seja na vida social, afetiva, profissional,...? E ainda: Quais os vínculos que elas estabele-cem com os locais pelos quais quotidianamente se deslocam? Em especial no que diz respeito à constituição do lugar a dimensão espacial apropriada e vivida através do corpo ? Os ei-xos norteadores do estudo são as categorias gênero, raça, corporeidade, trabalhadoras domés-ticas, representações sociais, trajetórias socioespaciais, segregação/exclusão e lugar. Diante do exposto, o objetivo do presente estudo é analisar o fenômeno da exclusão/segregação socioes-pacial na perspectiva de trabalhadoras domésticas que trabalham em Goiânia e residem na cidade de Aparecida de Goiânia, buscando identificar suas trajetórias socioespaciais espa-cialidade diferencial - e compreender quais os vínculos que estas mulheres estabelecem com os locais que freqüentam, bem como os elementos principais no estabelecimento destes víncu-los. O caminho aberto pela Geografia Humanista na década de 1970, com a introdução de novos temas relativos à produção do espaço pelo homem, exigiu ampliação e diversificação do seu arcabouço teórico e metodológico até chegar as novas geografias atuais, na verdade geografias negligenciadas, tidas como informais pelo olhar científico tradicional, que na con-temporaneidade começam a ganhar visibilidade, ao qual este trabalho pretende contribuir. A pesquisa (multi/trans/inter)disciplinar de abordagem qualitativa, flexível e multimetodológica, contou com a contribuição de trabalhadoras que diariamente se deslocam de suas casas ao local de trabalho cujas histórias de vida foram registradas por meio de entrevistas individuais semi-estruturadas gravadas. No conteúdo das entrevistas buscou-se apreender os elementos subjetivos relativos aos deslocamentos e a corporeidade das trabalhadoras, isto é, a sua con-dição de mulher pobre, trabalhadora doméstica, negra ou branca.

摘要 本研究探討印尼家傭，使用智慧型手機維護家庭親密關係的經驗。透過對台灣20名印尼家傭工進行深入訪談並觀察他們的在臉書的活動來究探討智慧型手機在跨國母親和遠距離婚姻中的複雜性，同時強調了家庭中的性別權力動態。部分由於智慧型手機作為相對較新的出現，智慧型手機與跨國母親尚未得到系統的研究。雖然已有若干研究探究了印尼家傭雖使用智慧型手機的經驗，但其獨特的社會文化特徵尚未得到充分和獨立的探究。 研究發現，智慧型手機是家傭維持家庭親密關係的不可或缺的工具。WhatsApp和LINE的語音通話和簡訊，是最被偏好的通訊模式。他們的溝通方式常受雇主控制;然而，一般來說，他們享有使用智慧型手機的通訊自由。智慧型手機的永續連結性為家傭提供了一個虛擬環境創造與孩子的共存感，增溫了他們的關係，並且使家傭能夠向子女提供宗教指導，履行他們作為穆斯林母親的教育責任。智慧型手機也用於配偶間的溝通，儘管頻率往往由妻子或其就業情況決定。 以Goffman的被寵壞的認同（spoiled identity）作為視角，本研究指出印尼家傭在工作期間遭受「作為與雇主同居女傭」之污名化，他們使用各種策略，用智慧型手機進行形象管理來應對他們的生活，包括與丈夫選擇性的分享他們的生活。這項研究進一步假定，在女性移工透過智慧型手機進行密集的網路互動不僅可以作為再現性別角色規範的場所。相反來說，它也是性別規範不斷被挑戰和重建的場所。本研究強調，受污名化的印尼女性家傭移工在其所居的社區之地位的再協商、。控制、賦權、應對策略之要素。 / Abstract This study explores the experience of Indonesian domestic workers in using smartphones to maintain family intimacy. By conducting in-depth interviews with 20 Indonesian domestic workers in Taiwan and observing their Facebook activities, this study examines the intricacy of smartphone use in transnational mothering and distant marriage while highlighting the gender power dynamics in the family. Partly due to its relatively recent emergence, smartphone use for transnational mothering has not been systematically investigated. While Indonesian domestic workers have been included in several studies on this subject, their unique sociocultural characteristics have not been sufficiently and independently examined. The findings suggest that smartphones are an indispensable instrument for family intimacy among domestic workers. Voice calls and text messages via mobile application such as WhatsApp and LINE are the most preferred modes of communication. Their communication practices are often conditioned by their employers; however, in general, they enjoy freedom to use smartphones for communication. Perpetual connectivity of smartphones gives the domestic workers the perception of co-presence with their children in virtual environment which enhances the warmth of their relationship and allows domestic helpers to fulfil their spiritual duties as Muslim mothers by providing religious guidance to their children. Smartphones are also used for spousal communication although the frequency is often dictated by the wives or their employment circumstances. Based on Goffman’s concept of spoiled identity, this study argues that Indonesian domestic workers face social stigma during their work as live-in maids and device various strategies in order to cope with their living condition by using smartphone activities for impression management, including with their husbands by selectively share their life stories. This study further posits that the intensive networked interaction via smartphones during feminized migration does not only serve as a site for the reproduction of normative gender roles. Instead, it is also a venue where these gender norms are challenged and reconstructed constantly. This study highlights the elements of control, empowerment and coping strategies of Indonesian maids to renegotiate their position within their communities during feminized (and stigmatized) migration.

Cette thèse est une recherche interdisciplinaire entre care et littérature, basée sur l'hypothèse d'un lien d'interdépendance entre les deux perspectives. Mon travail s’appuie sur l'idée que la littérature peut être un instrument particulièrement adéquat de recherche sur le travail et la relation de care justement parce que les romans racontent des histoires ordinaires. En effet, le care n’est pas un principe ontologique général, il est lié à des situations particulières, concrètes. De même, les récits littéraires de Slow Man de John M. Coetzee et Maria de Lalla Romano, sur lesquels va porter mon analyse, inversent la condition d'invisibilité sociale qui dans notre société touche les travailleuses de care. Dans les romans et les ouvrages sociologiques analysés les femmes care-givers occupent la scène principale : elles sont des héroïnes, non pas dans le sens de l'héroïsme universel masculin, mais de celui qui émerge des récits de care au prisme du genre. Enfin l'analyse des romans Maria et Slow Man a aussi nourri la réflexion sur le Unheimliche. En effet, le personnage de la care-giver est source d'inquiétante étrangeté, parce qu'elle est une femme, et que son travail consiste à s'occuper de ce qui est familier, mais aurait dû rester caché : la vulnérabilité humaine. De plus, très souvent la care-giver est une femme étrangère qui trouble l’espace de la domesticité et de l’intime. À travers la double perspective de la critique littéraire féministe et de l’éthique du care nous proposons une nouvelle lecture genrée de l’inquiétante étrangère familière au niveau des représentations sociales, littéraires et symboliques. / This thesis is an interdisciplinary research between care and literature, based on the assumption of an interdependence between the two perspectives. My work relies on the idea that literature can be a research instrument particularly suitable on work and care relation, precisely because novels can recount ordinary stories. Indeed, care is not a general ontological principle, it is related to specific situations, concrete. Then, literary narratives Slow Man by John M. Coetzee and Maria by Lalla Romano, basis of my analysis, reverse the condition of invisibility that affects care workers in our society. In novels and sociological works analyzed, care-givers occupy the main stage : they are heroines, not in the sense of universal male heroism, but in one that emerges from the care stories read from a gender perspective. Finally, the analysis of novels Maria and Slow Man has also inspired reflection on the Unheimliche. The character of the care-giver is a source of uncanny, because she is a woman, and that her job is to take care of what is familiar, but should have remained hidden: the human vulnerability. Moreover, very often the care-giver is a foreign woman who disturbs the space of domesticity and intimacy. Through the double perspective of feminist literary criticism and ethics of care we propose a new gendered reading of the uncanny in social representations, literary and symbolic.

The objective of the research is two-fold. Firstly, the research aims to arrive at a meaningful estimate of child labour in South Africa, and secondly, to establish a link between child labour and scholastic retardation. To establish an understanding of the turf, I take the reader through a detailed analysis of why children work, where they work and whom they work for. The study looks at the problems that have defined child labour for many decades and the steps taken both internationally and locally to enhance the efforts for its elimination. It looks at how, internationally, the campaign against child labour has shifted from children engaged in economic activity, to children engaged in hazardous work and the Worst Forms of child labour, which involves the economic exploitation of children by adults, through child prostitution, pornography, elicit trade, armed conflict etc. The definitional problems that have plagued the estimation of child labour in South Africa are reviewed, and I suggest specific approaches to measurement and estimation of child labour in future. I discuss the pertinent issues that need to be addressed to define child labour in South Africa, and I use the 1999 Survey of Activities of Young People (SAYP) to develop a conceptual framework of estimating child labour in South Africa. This is against the backdrop of the apparent disagreement between the main role-players, on the estimated levels of child labour in the country. I apply my model to the SAYP data set, and I estimate child labour by isolating all children in hazardous work, either by working conditions or environment, effect to child’s health and child’s schooling or by the number of hours for which they worked. I am very aware and mindful of the overwhelming need for children to work, among many South African households, simply for household sustenance. I therefore use the concept of long-hour cut offs, for different age groups of children to clearly establish the difference between ‘unacceptable’ child labour and ‘acceptable’ child work. To obtain the second objective of the study - establishing a link between scholastic progression and child labour, I focus on children who were attending school at the time of the survey, in the households under investigation; and, I choose to use the ‘grade-specific scholastic retardation rate’ as the appropriate measure of scholastic progression. By introducing gender as one of the determinants, I construct nine, different but not necessarily mutually exclusive groups of children with apparent variation in the intensity of the child labour characteristic. Then, among the children in each of the nine groups, I calculate grade-specific scholastic retardation rates (SRR) for children who were enrolled in grades 1 to 6 at the time of the survey. I am then able to graphically compare the SRR for the nine different groups, and graphically demonstrate that there is a link between child labour and scholastic retardation. The results of the research show that children in child labour tend to be more scholastically retarded than those who are not engaged in child labour, and that child labour seems to have more adverse effects on boys than girls enrolled in the same grades. / Dissertation (MA (Demography))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Sociology / unrestricted