Private welfare: challenges to decent work for migrant care workers
- Document number
- 2527
- Date
- 2010
- Title
- Private welfare: challenges to decent work for migrant care workers
- Author/publisher
- Solidar
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- National Law,
- Keywords
- Economy in transition, Youth employment, State socialism, Socio-Economic transition, Discrimination, Unemployment, Poverty, Community development, Social security, Social exclusion, Health care, Drugs abuse, Health, HIV/AIDS, Globalisation; Migrant rights; Migration management; Comprehensive approach to migration; Migration policy; Restrictive migration measures, Irregular Migration, Feminization of migration, Economic migration, Labour migration, Free movement, Undocumented migrants; Undocumented labour;
- Summary
- Italy's ageing population and the limited supply of home care services have led to the creation of a system of private welfare. Many families are now turning to foreign family assistants to care for their elderly relatives (caregivers, or ‘badanti') and provide domestic help (maids). Research by the Associazione Nazionale Oltre Le Frontiere (ANOLF) Piemonte has revealed a weakly protected sector. Irregular contracts are widespread and many are still in an illegal situation with widespread irregularities in employment contracts. When these jobs were officially recognised in 2007 with the introduction of a national collective agreement, there were 700,000 people in the sector, mainly women from Eastern Europe, South America and Africa. By September 2009, that number had risen to 1 million. A significant minority of these undocumented migrants are still in an illegal situation.
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