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More than just friends? The role of voluntary kin relationships on ageing migrant domestic workers' access to social protection
Vivas Romero, Maria
20163rd ISA Forum of Sociology: The futures we want global sociology and the struggles for a better world
 

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Keywords :
Social Protection; Ageing Migrants; Voluntary Kin
Abstract :
[en] The feminization of migration led to an academic interest on female migrant domestic worker’s transnational obligations as mothers and family members. Less emphasis has been placed on their own needs in terms of care and social protection, particularly in their ageing life period. This contribution makes a case for assessing the role of transnational voluntary kin relationships on ageing-migrant-domestic-worker access to social protection. Transnational voluntary kin relationships are defined as family-type relationships, based not on blood or law association but rather on voluntary agreements. It’s argued that migrants access to transnational voluntary kin relationships depends on their intersectional positioning and replace, overlap or complement traditional family support. These relationships are a social capital that facilitates access to social protection in the areas of labor, social security entitlement, housing and informal practical-symbolic care. Through the analysis emphasis is first placed on how migrants intersectional gender, class, ethnic, generational positioning within the welfare, gender, care, and migration-labor regimes of sending and receiving societies, determines their needs and access to such relationships. Subsequently, the role of two instrumental voluntary kin relationships in migrants access to social protection are explored, meaning: 1- Substitute Voluntary Kin that intervenes when blood or law type family members are dead, underperformed their roles or there are ongoing conflicts, 2- Supplemental Voluntary Kin that intervene when traditional family members that reside in physical or non-physical proximity are unable to perform their roles. Data draws from the life-stories of 8 Peruvian-Colombian ageing migrant domestic workers residing in Brussels and 45 semi-structured interviews with their voluntary and traditional transnational kin residing in various geographical locations. This contribution aims to improve the knowledge on emerging nontraditional family support systems that help to alleviate the reproductive and productive needs of transnational ageing individuals in modern societies.
Disciplines :
Sociology & social sciences
Author, co-author :
Vivas Romero, Maria ;  Université de Liège > Faculté des sciences sociales > Centre d'études de l'ethnicité et des migrations (CEDEM)
Language :
English
Title :
More than just friends? The role of voluntary kin relationships on ageing migrant domestic workers' access to social protection
Publication date :
11 July 2016
Event name :
3rd ISA Forum of Sociology: The futures we want global sociology and the struggles for a better world
Event organizer :
ISA- International Sociological Association
Event place :
Vienna, Austria
Event date :
10-07-2016 to 14-07-2016
Audience :
International
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