Table des matières
Introduction
- Why Ragusa?
- What: ‘emblematic figures of migration’ as units of analysis
- Farm workers
- Domestic workers
- A comparative approach
- How: overview of theories and methods
- Explaining labor migration flows
- Navigating migration institutions
- Exploring the constitution of migrant worker subjects
- Methods
- Structure of the book
Chapter 1. Labor migration flows to Ragusa: the fuzzy boundaries between cores and peripheries
- Ragusa: core or periphery?
- Structural needs
- Agriculture: structural needs and the challenges of open economies
- Eldercare: structural needs and market-oriented welfare choices
- Linkages with source areas
- Linkages with agricultural labor-exporting areas
- Linkages with eldercare-exporting areas
- Chapter conclusion: Fuzzy boundaries between north and south
Chapter 2. Labor migration management: neoliberal calculations, human implementation
- Neoliberalism as a technology of governing and labor migration management
- Labor migration: A patchwork of policies and practices
- Farm workers: irregular stay and ex post facto regularization
- Care workers: regular stay, undeclared employment
- Contracts and pay: personalizing formality and informality
- Chapter conclusion: Labor migration management vs unintended outcomes
Chapter 3. Labor market incorporation of care and farm migrant workers: the odds of social capital
- Labor supply ad infinitum: referrals, rotation, place-based-knowledge and trust
- Chain migration and referrals
- Rotation
- Place-based-knowledge
- Circles of trust
- The outcomes of network-mediated recruitment
- The two sides of network-mediated recruitment: solidarity vs profit
- Chapter conclusion: Social capital and labor market segmentation
Chapter 4. Employer-worker relationships: buying “personhood”
- Skillful and manageable: marketable talents and hiring decisions
- Language, skill, love: marketable talent in farm and eldercare jobs
- Essentializing suitability and manageability
- Gendering migrant recruitment
- Building and negotiating status and identity in the home-workplace
- Privacy and intimacy
- Personalism: Only business?
- Maternalism, moral boundaries and ‘good employers’
- Chapter conclusion: Live-in jobs and local techniques of optimization
Chapter 5. The contradictions of self-enterprising migrant worker subjects
- Neoliberalism as a technology of governing, migration and subjectification
- “Just like a dream!” Migrant workers’ self-improvement aspirations
- Exceptions to neoliberalism
- “The dearest word to all peoples is freedom!” Spatial and symbolic isolation
- Response tactics
- Dirtiness vs dignity: contesting class
- Othering strategies
- Chapter conclusion: Exceptions to neoliberalism and their interstices
Appendices
- Appendix I: List of Interviews
- Agricultural workers
- Domestic workers
- Employers
- Additional interviews
- Appendix II: Domestic work in Italy
- Domestic Workers in Italy 1999-2005 (%)
- Foreign domestic workers in Italy 1999-2005 (%) Distribution according to geographic region of origin
- Domestic workers by nationality and age group Year 2005 (%)
- Appendix III: Location maps
- Figure 1: Map of Italy, location of the Province of Ragusa
- Figure 2: Province of Ragusa – Research sites
- Appendix IV: Images
- Figure 3: Phone center – Santa Croce Camerina
- Figure 4: Immigrant shop, Ragusa
- Figure 5: Orthodox church, Ragusa
- Figure 6: Apartment on a farm, Ragusa