Choosing the right age group? : intersectional analysis of
demand for paid domestic workers in Slovakia

J 2018

Choosing the right age group? : intersectional analysis of demand for paid domestic workers in Slovakia

SEKERÁKOVÁ BÚRIKOVÁ, Zuzana

Základní údaje

Originální název

Choosing the right age group? : intersectional analysis of demand for paid domestic workers in Slovakia

Autoři

SEKERÁKOVÁ BÚRIKOVÁ, Zuzana

Vydání

Slovenský národopis, Bratislava, Ústav etnológie SAV, 2018, 1335-1303

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50901 Other social sciences

Stát vydavatele

Slovensko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

článek

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14230/18:00101025

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

DOI

https://doi.org/10.26363/SN.2018.2.05

UT WoS

000448597900005

Klíčová slova anglicky

Intersectionality; age; gender; paid domestic work; nannies

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 18. 3. 2019 16:13, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

Drawing upon interviews with paid carers and their employers undertaken in Bratislava and Banská Bystrica between the years 2013 – 2015, this article focuses on employment of paid domestic workers (nannies, babysitters, and cleaners) in Slovakia. This research focuses on the situation, which is globally unusual: unlike in Slovakia, where paid domestic workers are local women, paid domestic work is generally undertaken mostly by migrant women or women coded as ethnically other. In general, employment of paid domestic work operates on the base of ethnic hierarchies: women belonging to particular ethnic groups are seen as more or less suitable domestic workers. Analysing demand for nannies, babysitters and cleaners in Slovakia, this article argues that employers of local paid domestic workers do not use ethnicity but age as connoting particular qualities considered as necessary for undertaking paid care or housework. In particular, specific age groups are seen as more or less suitable for doing particular types of paid domestic work (e.g. cleaning, daily care for an infant, babysitting). After describing in detail how employers categorise paid domestic workers according to their age, I will reveal that in decisions of who to employ the age does not operate as an isolated individual category. Rather, it operates in intersection with other categories such as gender and can be understood only when we adopt an intersectional perspective.

Návaznosti

GP13-11062P, projekt VaV

Název: Placená péče o děti a domácnost v Česku a na Slovensku

Investor: Grantová agentura ČR, Placená péče o děti a domácnost v Česku a na Slovensku

Přiložené soubory

sekerakova_burikova_SN_ageism.pdf

Citovat

SEKERÁKOVÁ BÚRIKOVÁ, Zuzana. Choosing the right age group? : intersectional analysis of demand for paid domestic workers in Slovakia. Slovenský národopis. Bratislava: Ústav etnológie SAV, 2018, roč. 66, č. 2, s. 239-252. ISSN 1335-1303. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.26363/SN.2018.2.05.

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SEKERÁKOVÁ BÚRIKOVÁ, Zuzana. Choosing the right age group? : intersectional analysis of demand for paid domestic workers in Slovakia. \textit{Slovenský národopis}. Bratislava: Ústav etnológie SAV, 2018, roč.~66, č.~2, s.~239-252. ISSN~1335-1303. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.26363/SN.2018.2.05.

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