Relational Negotiation Processes Between Migrant Care Workers and Mothers: From Caregiving to Fictive Kinship

Canan Neşe Kınıkoğlu; Zehra Zeynep Sadıkoğlu; Fatih Yaman

Makale detayları

Relational Negotiation Processes Between Migrant Care Workers and Mothers: From Caregiving to Fictive Kinship

Yazarlar:

Canan Neşe Kınıkoğlu | Zehra Zeynep Sadıkoğlu | Fatih Yaman

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji (Diğer)

Dergi:

İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi Vol.43 Issue 2, pp.513-536

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2023

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001311347

pISSN:

2667-6931

Anahtar kelimeler:

Özet:

 With Türkiyes adoption of neoliberal policies regarding care services over the last few decades, informally employed migrant care workers have become an important source for providing childcare in Türkiye. This research explores how caregiving roles are negotiated through the relationship between live-in migrant care workers and the mothers who hire them. The study uses a phenomenological approach to focus on five households with migrant care workers in Istanbul, the hub of migrant workers in Türkiye. According to the preliminary findings, a secure relationality between migrant care workers and mothers is established in the first reconciliation phase when the migrant care worker is hired into the household. In the second adaptation phase, cultural similarities and differences between the migrant care worker and the mother arise in the field of childcare. These are negotiated through a fictive kinship, whose borders are often drawn by the mother unilaterally. The last phase consolidates the household routines and orders. Here, the relationality between the migrant care worker and the mother is established through the implicit and open negotiation processes regarding childcare. This research argues that, while this process is predominantly adapted to the expectations of the mother, migrant care workers do not internalize the fictive kinship the mother has constructed and the insecure employment conditions.

 With Türkiyes adoption of neoliberal policies regarding care services over the last few decades, informally employed migrant care workers have become an important source for providing childcare in Türkiye. This research explores how caregiving roles are negotiated through the relationship between live-in migrant care workers and the mothers who hire them. The study uses a phenomenological approach to focus on five households with migrant care workers in Istanbul, the hub of migrant workers in Türkiye. According to the preliminary findings, a secure relationality between migrant care workers and mothers is established in the first reconciliation phase when the migrant care worker is hired into the household. In the second adaptation phase, cultural similarities and differences between the migrant care worker and the mother arise in the field of childcare. These are negotiated through a fictive kinship, whose borders are often drawn by the mother unilaterally. The last phase consolidates the household routines and orders. Here, the relationality between the migrant care worker and the mother is established through the implicit and open negotiation processes regarding childcare. This research argues that, while this process is predominantly adapted to the expectations of the mother, migrant care workers do not internalize the fictive kinship the mother has constructed and the insecure employment conditions.

 With Türkiyes adoption of neoliberal policies regarding care services over the last few decades, informally employed migrant care workers have become an important source for providing childcare in Türkiye. This research explores how caregiving roles are negotiated through the relationship between live-in migrant care workers and the mothers who hire them. The study uses a phenomenological approach to focus on five households with migrant care workers in Istanbul, the hub of migrant workers in Türkiye. According to the preliminary findings, a secure relationality between migrant care workers and mothers is established in the first reconciliation phase when the migrant care worker is hired into the household. In the second adaptation phase, cultural similarities and differences between the migrant care worker and the mother arise in the field of childcare. These are negotiated through a fictive kinship, whose borders are often drawn by the mother unilaterally. The last phase consolidates the household routines and orders. Here, the relationality between the migrant care worker and the mother is established through the implicit and open negotiation processes regarding childcare. This research argues that, while this process is predominantly adapted to the expectations of the mother, migrant care workers do not internalize the fictive kinship the mother has constructed and the insecure employment conditions.

 Neoliberalleşme bağlamında çoğunlukla enformel olarak gerçekleşen göçmen bakıcı istihdamı Türkiyede çocuk bakım hizmetini sağlamanın önemli yollarından biri haline gelmiştir. Bu araştırma İstanbulda yatılı göçmen bakıcıların bulunduğu beş haneye fenomenolojik bir yaklaşımla odaklanarak annelik ve bakıcılık rollerinin hanede ilişkisellikle nasıl müzakere edildiğini incelemektedir. Araştırmanın ilk aşamasında beş anne ve beş göçmen bakıcı ile yapılan derinlemesine görüşmelerden elde ettiğimiz bulgulara göre bakıcı ve anne arasında güvenli bir ilişkisellik ilk uzlaşı evresinde kurulmakta, sonrasında çocuk bakımı ve annelik rollerinde kültürel benzerlik ve farklılıklar asimetrik bir şekilde oluşan kurgusal akrabalık üzerinden müzakere edilerek uyumlanma evresine geçilmektedir. Hane içi düzen evresinde ise göçmen bakıcı ve anne arasında gelişen ilişkisellik, hane üyelerinin kendine özgü iletişim tutumlarına göre değişen, bakıcının başta anne olmak üzere aile üyeleriyle kurduğu ilişkide gizil ve açık müzakere süreçlerini besleyen ancak nihayetinde duygusal emeğin baskın olarak ailenin beklentilerine göre uyarlandığı bir yapı sunmaktadır.

Makale detayları

Relational Negotiation Processes Between Migrant Care Workers and Mothers: From Caregiving to Fictive Kinship

Yazarlar:

Canan Neşe Kınıkoğlu | Zehra Zeynep Sadıkoğlu | Fatih Yaman

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji (Diğer)

Dergi:

İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi Vol.43 Issue 2, pp.513-536

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2023

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001311347

pISSN:

2667-6931

Motherhood

Migrant care workers

Fictive kinship

Relationality

Negotiation processesAnnelik

Göçmen bakıcılık

İlişkisellik

Kurgusal akrabalık

Müzakere süreçleri

Sayı

Makale detayları

Yazarlar: Canan Neşe Kınıkoğlu | Zehra Zeynep Sadıkoğlu | Fatih Yaman

Yayıncı: Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar: Sosyoloji (Diğer)

Dergi: İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi Vol.43 Issue 2, pp.513-536

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 12/2023

Belge Dili: Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.): 2001311347

pISSN: 2667-6931

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Canan Neşe Kınıkoğlu | Zehra Zeynep Sadıkoğlu | Fatih Yaman

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sosyoloji (Diğer)

Dergi:

İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi Vol.43 Issue 2, pp.513-536

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2023

Belge Dili:

Türkçe

Document ID (Org No.):

2001311347

pISSN:

2667-6931