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abstract: 'Belgium had a long tradition of direct informal employment in paid
domestic work, which has undergone formalisation through the
introduction of the `service voucher system''. This policy triangulates
the employment relationship between workers and clients through
introducing third-party employing agencies, and guarantees workers''
access to labour and social security rights. Up until now, most
international studies of paid domestic work have focused on direct and
privatized worker-employer relationships (Anderson, Doing the dirty
work?: The global politics of domestic labour, 2000); Hondagneu-Sotelo,
Domestica: Immigrant workers cleaning and caring in the shadows of
affluence, 2001); (Lutz, The New Maids: Transnational women and the care
economy, 2011); Moras (Sociology Mind, 3(3), 248-256, 2013); (Romero,
Maid in the U.S.A., 1992). This literature has shown that paid domestic
work often features `personalised'' (emotionally-loaded) worker-employer
relationships. The goal of this article is to analyse the impact of the
introduction of the service voucher system on personalisation processes
affecting paid domestic work in Belgium. Is personalisation bound to
disappear with the sector''s formalisation or is it intrinsic to paid
domestic work?We show that personalisation is not threatened by
formalisation policies which do not challenge the structural
inequalities underpinning paid domestic work (and to which
personalisation develops as a remedy). In the Belgian case, the service
voucher policy did not challenge the crucial role of personalisation for
finding and keeping jobs, as well as improving working conditions. The
article shows that personalisation is an informal social protection
strategy which developed in the exploitative conditions of informality,
but is likely to survive formalising policies. Indeed, formalisation did
not eliminate the need for personalisation, as it did not substantially
improve working conditions in the sector, failed to recognise workers''
qualifications and to challenge the gendered and migrantized character
of domestic work employment.'
affiliation: 'Safuta, A (Corresponding Author), Fonds Rech Sci, FNRS, Brussels, Belgium.
Safuta, A (Corresponding Author), Univ Bremen, Unicom, Off 7-1090,Mary Somerville
Str 7, D-28359 Bremen, Germany.
Safuta, Anna, Fonds Rech Sci, FNRS, Brussels, Belgium.
Safuta, Anna, Univ Bremen, Unicom, Off 7-1090,Mary Somerville Str 7, D-28359 Bremen,
Germany.
Camargo, Beatriz, Univ Libre Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.'
article-number: '14'
author: Safuta, Anna and Camargo, Beatriz
author-email: anna.safuta@uni-bremen.de
author_list:
- family: Safuta
given: Anna
- family: Camargo
given: Beatriz
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1186/s40878-018-0111-5
eissn: 2214-594X
files: []
journal: COMPARATIVE MIGRATION STUDIES
keywords: 'Domestic work; Domestic workers; Belgium; Formalisation;
Personalisation; Migrant workers; Informal social protection; Service
voucher'
language: English
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '36'
papis_id: ac068ca5125e24d0ea714ef0c41b7a5c
ref: Safuta2019morethings
times-cited: '7'
title: The more things change, the more they stay the same? The impact of formalising
policies on personalisation in paid domestic work - the case of the service voucher
in Belgium
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000701892100014
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '4'
volume: '7'
web-of-science-categories: Demography
year: '2019'