Scrinzi, F. (2017) Caring for the elderly in the family or in the nation? Gender, women and migrant care labour in the Lega Nord. West European Politics, 40(4), pp. 869-886. (doi: 10.1080/01402382.2017.1287447)
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Abstract
This article aims at gendering our understanding of populist radical right ideology, policy and activism in Italy. It does so by focusing on migrant care labour, which provides a strategic site for addressing the relationship between anti-immigration politics and the gendered and racialised division of work. Three arrangements and understandings of elderly care are analysed, whereby care work should be performed ‘in the family and in the nation’, ‘in the family/outside the nation’ and ‘in the nation/outside the family’. Party documents and interviews with women activists are used to show how the activists’ views and experiences partly diverge from the Lega Nord rhetoric and policy on immigration, gender and care work. The article locates populist radical right politics in the context of the international division of reproductive labour in Italy and suggests the relevance of analysing gender relations in populist radical right parties in connection with national care regimes.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Scrinzi, Dr Francesca |
| Authors: | Scrinzi, F. |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Sociology Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences |
| Journal Name: | West European Politics |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 0140-2382 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1743-9655 |
| Published Online: | 21 February 2017 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor and Francis Group |
| First Published: | First published in West European Politics 40(4):869-886 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy |
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