Ukrainian Migrant Workers in Italy: Coping with and Reacting to Downward Mobility
Ukrainian Migrant Workers in Italy: Coping with and Reacting to Downward Mobility
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在意大利的乌克兰移民工人：应对向下流动
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10.1007/s10680-014-9313-1
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2014
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F. Vianello
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F. Vianello
本文调查了乌克兰移民妇女在意大利的家庭和护理部门就业的现象。该分析是基于2005年至2007年期间在乌克兰和意大利进行的广泛的博士研究。特别是，我调查的主观看法向下流动，以及如何移民妇女面对这个过程中的社会贬值，并应对它，考虑到，在乌克兰女性移民的情况下，由移民产生的社会打滑携手并进的侵蚀的社会和专业身份，在他们的原籍国经历了在1990年代。因此，为了理解移民经历的复杂性，有必要分析移民的整个生活轨迹。文章的主要结果是，乌克兰移民妇女认为货币贬值是她们生活中的一个插曲，是一种牺牲，有助于提高她们家庭的社会地位。此外，为了减轻社会滑坡和阻碍家务工作的不对称关系，她们更愿意与雇主建立个人关系，避免为教育程度低的工人阶级工作。最后，乌克兰家庭佣工对移民造成的同质化作出反应，将自己与同一部门雇用的其他外国国民以及与其同胞妇女的“粗糙群体”区别开来。
This article investigates the phenomenon of Ukrainian migrant women employed in the domestic and care sector in Italy. The analysis is based on a broad doctoral research carried out both in Ukraine and in Italy between 2005 and 2007. In particular, I investigate the subjective perception of downward mobility and how migrant women face this process of social devaluation and respond to it, taking into account that, in the case of Ukrainian female migration, the social skidding produced by migration goes hand in hand with the erosion of social and professional identity as experienced in their origin country during the 1990s. Thus, in order to comprehend the complexity of migration experiences it is necessary to analyse the migrants' whole life trajectories. The main results of the article are that Ukrainian migrant women give meaning to the process of devaluation by viewing it as an interlude in their life and as a sacrifice that serves to improve their families’ upward social mobility. Furthermore, in order to mitigate the social skidding and the asymmetrical relationships that characterise domestic work, they prefer to personalise the relationship with their employers and to avoid working for low educated and working class people. Finally, Ukrainian domestic workers react to the homogenisation engendered by migration by differentiating themselves both from other foreign nationals employed in the same sector, and from the ‘rough mass’ of their fellow countrywomen.