Caring for recognition - young women on their way

Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel

"The purpose of this qualitative research - based on biographical narrative interviews - is to trace the migration strategies of two young female domestic workers in private households in Germany. The authors interpret their agency mainly as a successful practice of 'coping'. The analysis of the case studies reveals that biographical resources, language skills, aspects of class, nation state policies and expectations of the future intersect within the emancipation process. Care and domestic work functions as a strategy to realize long-term migration and thereby emphasizes its fundamental value in societies." (author's abstract)

Object Details

• ISSN: 2196-2146
• Extent: Seite(n): 115-130
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung, 15(1-2)

Classification and Topics

• Subject: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie ; Migration ; Migration ; Hausangestellte ; Hausarbeit ; Pflege ; Privathaushalt ; Bundesrepublik Deutschland ; Biographie ; sozialer Aufstieg ; sozialer Status ; Lebensplanung ; Karriereplanung ; soziale Herkunft

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Glaeser, Janina ; Kupczyk, Monika
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Deutschland
• (when): 2014

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-461548
• Rights: GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
• Last update: 21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST