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