Postsocialist Caring Biographies : Care Work between Work and Non-Work
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society |
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| web | https://academic.oup.com/sp/article/25/2/229/4956835 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxy011 |
| Keywords | care biographies; nannies; work; non-work |
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| Description | This article examines the ambiguous status of paid care work by focusing on how nannies make sense of paid care work. Drawing on fifteen in-depth interviews with Czech nannies caring for second-generation Vietnamese immigrant children, the article seeks answers to the following questions: How are postsocialist caring biographies and gendered subjectivities shaped in paid child care and how do they shape the understanding/meaning of (paid) care work? This article aims to bring a local experience to the global discussion while emphasizing the need for an examination of the cultural and political context in which nannies provide paid caregiving. |
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