Event overview
How does the increasing presence of corporations and non-profit organisations in the care industry in a period of crisis and austerity affect the sector?
How do care and domestic placement agencies change conceptions and cultures of care and domestic work?
How have the crisis and austerity politics transformed the working conditions of migrants in the care sector in different countries?
Conference Programme
8.30 – 8.45: Arrival with coffee/tea
8.45 – 9.00: Welcome and introduction: Sara R. Farris
9.00 – 10.45: Session 1 – Commodification of care, labour relations and working conditions | Chair: Bernhard Weicht
Gender, Ethnicity and Migration in Bureaucratised Care Work – Sabrina Marchetti (EUI, Italy) and Francesca Scrinzi (University of Glasgow, UK).
Neoliberal Care, Postcolonial Legacies: Filipino Nurse Recruitment to Finland – Lena Näre (University of Helsinki, Finland).
The care industry in London, Paris and Madrid: what the structural reliance on migrant and minority ethnic labour is the symptom of – Nina Sahraoui (London Metropolitan University, UK).
Q&A from the audience
10.45 – 12.30: Session 2 – The impact of crisis and austerity on the care industry | Chair: Sabrina Marchetti
Who cares? Migrant agency and bank workers in the austerity affected UK and Greek NHS – Thanos Maroukis (University of Bath, UK).
What Crisis? Which Crisis? Views of Migration, Care-Work, and Crisis from the Global South – Denise Spitzer (University of Ottawa, Canada).
Waiting out the recession: Au pairs and their hosts coping with gendered austerity – Rosie Cox (Birkbeck University of London, UK).
Q&A from the audience
12.30 – 13.30 – Lunch
13.30 – 15.30: Session 3 – The impact of private and non-profit organisations on the care industry | Chair: Sara R. Farris
From ‘forced mobility’ to ‘forced immobility’. The case of Spanish nurses and care workers in Germany – Mark Bergfeld (Queen Mary University, London).
Corporate care drain. Strategies of business organizations to attract care workers from behind the care-curtain - Anna Kordasiewicz (University of Warsaw, Poland).
Exploring attitudes and perceptions of employers towards domestic workers and the role of the employment agency – Ekaterina Porras Sivolobova (Project 189, Kuwait).
TBA- Jobeda Ali (Three Sisters Care, UK)
Q&A
15.30 – 16.00: Coffee break
16.30 – 18.15: Session 4 – The political economy of care | Chair: Mark Bergfeld
Cheap labour or key skills? Retrenchment and marketization shaping MCW’ positionality – Bernhard Weicht (University of Innsbruck, Austria).
The effects of recent policy interventions aimed at regularizing care and domestic workers in Italy, Spain and France. Is it a migration, a labour or a social policy issue? – Sara Picchi (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy).
Corporate care in times of crisis and austerity – Sara R. Farris (Goldsmiths College, UK).
Q&A from the audience
18.15 – 19.00: Conclusions and future plans.
www.corporatecareconference.org
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Oct 2015 | 8:30am - 6:00pm |
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