Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO
Author/s Maurizio Ambrosini
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2014/135
Language Italian Pages 17 P. 109-125 File size 111 KB
DOI 10.3280/SL2014-135007
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The history of Italian migration policies in the last three decade is a history of failures. Despite harder controls and heavier sanctions, Italian governments have been forced to enact seven amnesties for irregular immigrants in 25 years, without taking into account other measures of hidden regularization, as the flow decrees of the quota system. The demand of workforce for elderly assistance at home are one of the main reasons of this regulatory failure. Immigrant female and also male workers are increasingly involved in the supply of care services in the countries of the Global North. In the countries of southern Europe, but to an increasing extent also in countries like Germany and Austria, the care work of immigrants is embedded in a specific care regime. It is undertaken mainly in the recipients’ households, often around the clock, and on a live-in basis, so that it supports a system in which the family remains the central locus of care delivery to frail people. Secondly, it employs a large number of workers irregular in regard to the employment relationship, and often also to their legal status. The article presents the results of various research studies on the topic carried out in Italy within the time-span of a decade (2002-2012). It will discuss how irregular migration is in fact tolerated, when inserted in care work at the service of the growing needs of native families; how the system that I call "parallel welfare" works; and how immigrant care workers find possibilities of agency, despite the constraints of the legal order and the exploitation they often experience at work.
Keywords: Immigration policy, irregular immigration, care work, elderly, family, care regime
Maurizio Ambrosini, Non tutti gli insuccessi regolativi vengono per nuocere: la costruzione di un welfare parallelo e l’immigrazione irregolare in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO " 135/2014, pp 109-125, DOI: 10.3280/SL2014-135007