“In Italy we need women like you”. Work training courses for migrant women between empowerment and work segregation
Topics: Migration
, Gender
, Ethnicity and Race
Keywords: Migration, Intersectionality, Labour integration, Social Reproduction
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Saturday
Session Start / End Time: 2/26/2022 08:00 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/26/2022 09:20 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 33
Authors:
Noemi Martorano, FISPPA- Università di Padova
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Abstract
The paper aims to interrogate with a critical and intersectional approach (Crenshaw 1991), the relationship between the “integration” programmes for migrant women (Farris 2017 ; Gargiulo 2018), workfare policies (Handler 2003 ; Lewis 2002 Krinsky & Simonet 2012) and social reproduction (Kofman & Raghuram 2015 ; Anderson 2001). It is based on ethnographic research of online training and work orientation courses addressed to migrant women in Italy carried out during the pandemic context. The contribution analyses how institutional actors in the pedagogical process of the courses, reformulate and reproduce religious, cultural, racialized and gender relations, that orient the position and relationship that the migrant women must keep in the labour market to learn “how it works in Italy”: proactivity, flexibility, competitiveness, adaptation to gender, racial, religious stereotypes. The courses mobilised contents promote not only culturally normative values and behaviours, but concretely orientate the job trajectories of the beneficiaries towards specific labour market sectors and segregate them within the broad spectrum of social reproduction jobs. While the training course promotes empowerment, emancipation (Farris 2017), and the sharing of experiences and instruments, it turns out to be a place of production and intensification of racial and gender discriminations that have an impact on the definition of the role that the beneficiaries are required to play in the labour market in Italy, to make themselves “employable” and therefore “integrable”.
“In Italy we need women like you”. Work training courses for migrant women between empowerment and work segregation
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