Essential and forgotten. Domestic work and the impact of policy responses during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain and Italy

IF 0.8 Q3 SOCIOLOGY Papers-Revista de Sociologia Pub Date : 2023-05-31 DOI:10.5565/rev/papers.3169
Laia Tarragona, Elena Ghidoni
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Results from the European project RESISTIRÉ show that the pandemic outbreak and policies adopted to contain the virus have reinforced pre-existing gender inequalities, resulting in a “spiral of increasing inequalities” (Axelsson et al., 2021: 110). The care domain is a key part of this spiral and has been at the centre of debates and of some of the COVID-19 policy responses. However, for the most part, policy interventions in the care domain have focused primarily on work-life balance, neglecting the impact of health-related policy restrictions on domestic workers – a highly feminised and racialised sector. Yet these workers have been dramatically affected by the pandemic and related policies, not only in terms of exposure to infection, but also in terms of exacerbation of pre-existing and intersecting inequalities. Moreover, when policies did address the domestic sector, they often reproduced gender stereotyped understandings of the nature of care work, and reinforced racist assumptions on migration. This paper compares the policies on domestic workers enacted during the pandemic in Italy and Spain, which illustrate how public policy engages in gendering and racializing domestic workers. Drawing on Bacchi’s methodology, it seeks to unfold and problematise the representations and implicit assumptions related to care work, and the gender and racial hierarchies underpinning them.
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必不可少却又被遗忘。西班牙和意大利在COVID-19大流行期间的国内工作和政策应对的影响
欧洲RESISTIRÉ项目的结果表明,大流行病的爆发和为遏制病毒而采取的政策加剧了先前存在的性别不平等,导致"不平等现象不断加剧" (Axelsson等人,2021:110)。护理领域是这一螺旋上升的关键部分,一直是辩论和一些COVID-19政策应对措施的中心。然而,在大多数情况下,护理领域的政策干预主要侧重于工作与生活的平衡,而忽视了与健康有关的政策限制对家庭佣工的影响,这是一个高度女性化和种族化的部门。然而,这些工人受到大流行病和相关政策的巨大影响,不仅表现在易受感染方面,而且表现在原有的相互交织的不平等加剧方面。此外,当政策确实涉及家庭部门时,它们往往再现了对护理工作性质的性别定型理解,并加强了关于移徙的种族主义假设。本文比较了意大利和西班牙在疫情期间制定的家政工人政策,说明了公共政策是如何使家政工人性别化和种族化的。借鉴Bacchi的方法论,它试图展开和问题化与护理工作相关的表征和隐含假设,以及支撑它们的性别和种族等级。
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