Just Work? Bulgarian Female Labour Migration to Italy and the Moral Economy of Care
Just Work? Bulgarian Female Labour Migration to Italy and the Moral Economy of Care

Summary/Abstract: Since the early 1990s, female labour migration from Bulgaria has become a common practice and has acquired unprecedented dimensions. In this paper I will address the characteristics of the most popular form of the Bulgarian female labour migration to Italy, namely work as caregivers of old people, sick family members and children. The specificity of work – from the decision to get employed abroad as domestic care workers – through its practice to its meaning for the families of the female migrants marks it as an intersection point of pure economic goals and relationships, on the one hand, and moral ones, on the other. This defines my research problem: to analyse the moral economy of care from the perspective of women care workers.

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