Gender, migration and the ambiguous enterprise of professionalizing domestic service: the case of vocational training for the unemployed in France

Drawing on ethnographic data concerning migrant male domestic workers, this article examines the gendered dimensions of the process of racialization in Italy and France. First, it shows that specific racialized constructions of masculinity are mobilized by the employers as well as by training and recruitment agencies. These constructions of masculinity are related to different forms of organization of the sector in each country and to different ideologies about the integration of migrants. Second, the data presented reveal the strategies used by migrant male domestic workers to reaffirm their masculinity in a traditionally feminized sector. In doing so, this article intends to explore the connections between international migration and the gendering of occupations, with regard to the construction and management of masculinities in domestic service. Finally, by examining men’s experiences, this article aims to contribute to a more complex definition of the international division of care work

Les parcours professionnels des femmes dans les métiers de l'aide à la personne : leviers et freins à la qualification et à la promotion

Rapport au ministère du travail, LATTS-CNRSDans un contexte d'accélération des transformations de l'intervention et des services à domicile en Europe, cette recherche analyse les sens de ce mouvement en France et ses effets sur les parcours professionnels et de qualification d'intervenantes à domicile expérimentée

Masculinities and the international division of care: migrant male domestic workers in Italy and France

Drawing on ethnographic data concerning migrant male domestic workers, this article examines the gendered dimensions of the process of racialization in Italy and France. First, it shows that specific racialized constructions of masculinity are mobilized by the employers as well as by training and recruitment agencies. These constructions of masculinity are related to different forms of organization of the sector in each country and to different ideologies about the integration of migrants. Second, the data presented reveal the strategies used by migrant male domestic workers to reaffirm their masculinity in a traditionally feminized sector. In doing so, this article intends to explore the connections between international migration and the gendering of occupations, with regard to the construction and management of masculinities in domestic service. Finally, by examining men’s experiences, this article aims to contribute to a more complex definition of the international division of care work

Uma contribuição ao debate sobre as relações saúde e trabalho Contributions for a debate on the health and work relationships

O objetivo é apresentar os pressupostos teórico-metodológicos das investigações sobre problemas de saúde atuais marcados pelas mutações nos processos de trabalho em curso. Para isso, o artigo apresenta os resultados de algumas pesquisas recentes realizadas no campo de estudo das relações saúde e trabalho que observam os efeitos das mutações do trabalho, a partir das queixas que os trabalhadores vêm apresentando no que diz respeito à sua saúde e disposição para o enfrentamento cotidiano. Os resultados dos estudos descritos permitem visualizar um quadro de adoecimento dos trabalhadores em que as queixas são inespecíficas e suscitam o interesse pela abordagem da etnografia e pela metodologia da análise ergonômica do trabalho. As abordagens tradicionais são criticadas e o autor vislumbra a possibilidade de articular as disciplinas, a fim de resolver impasses colocados pelas abordagens clássicas.<br>This study aims to present theoretical and methodological principles of research about health problems that are marked by mutations in work processes. In order to reach its goal, this article present results of recent researches about the health and work relationship that observed the effects of work mutations from the perspective of workers’ complaints and the will to face daily life. The results from these studies reveals an illness process among workers with unspecific complaints and bring about the interest in the ethnographic approach and in the work ergonomic analysis. Traditional approaches to the theme are criticized and the author envisages the possibility of articulating disciplines in order to solve impasses posed by classic approache