The Spanish Network of Latin American and Caribbean women: a counter-hegemonic space for the female, migrant, domestic/care workers' political subjectivation
Author
Figas Segura, Marta
Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2021
Submitted on
2021-05-28
Pages
63
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified intersecting inequalities across gender, class, and race and exposed a care crisis sustained by women’s, often migrants’, domestic and care labor in Spain. In 2020, members of the Network of Latin American and Caribbean Women in Spain produced a political manifesto titled To leave no one behind! Care and violence: what the Covid-19 crisis has revealed in the Spanish State, which diagnoses the problem and proposes measures to improve domestic and care workers’ precarious conditions. This thesis examines how the Network operates as a counter-hegemonic space in which female migrant domestic and care workers enact heterogeneous forms of political subjectivation. Methodologically, it conducts a qualitative content analysis of the manifesto, complemented by a Network meeting report, and is framed by feminist and post-Marxist approaches to care and labor, critical migration studies on subjectivities, citizenship and the autonomy of migration, and perspectives on contentious politics; the analysis is situated within Spain’s care regime and the role of borders in shaping labor power. By foregrounding migrant women as political actors rather than mere beneficiaries, the study contributes to critical migration and transnational feminist scholarship on care, labor, and inequality in the Spanish state; empirical findings are not specified in the provided excerpt.
COVID-19-pandemien har forstærket eksisterende uligheder på tværs af køn, klasse og race og blotlagt en omsorgskrise, der opretholdes af kvinders, ofte migranters, hjemme- og omsorgsarbejde i Spanien. I 2020 udarbejdede medlemmer af Netværket af latinamerikanske og caribiske kvinder i Spanien et politisk manifest med titlen To leave no one behind! Care and violence: what the Covid-19 crisis has revealed in the Spanish State, som diagnosticerer problemerne og fremlægger forslag til forbedring af hushjælperes og omsorgsarbejderes arbejdsvilkår. Dette speciale undersøger, hvordan netværket fungerer som et modhegemonisk rum, hvor kvindelige, migrantiske hjemme- og omsorgsarbejdere udøver forskellige former for politisk subjektivering. Metodisk gennemføres en kvalitativ indholdsanalyse af manifestet, suppleret af en møderapport fra netværket, forankret i feministiske og post-marxistiske tilgange til omsorgs- og lønarbejde, kritiske migrationsstudier om subjektiviteter, statsborgerskab og migrationens autonomi samt perspektiver på protest- og bevægelsespolitik; analysen sættes samtidig ind i den spanske omsorgsmodel og grænsernes betydning for arbejdskraftens produktion. Ved at placere migrantkvinder som politiske aktører snarere end som blot modtagere bidrager specialet til kritiske migrations- og transnationale feministiske studier af omsorg, arbejde og ulighed i den spanske stat; empiriske resultater er ikke specificeret i det foreliggende uddrag.
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