‘THE GOOD LIVE-IN CARE WORKER’: SUBJECT FORMATION AND ETHNICISATION IN AUSTRIAN LIVE-IN CARE

• Authors: Prieler Veronika
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper investigates subject formation processes in Austrian live-in care. Proceeding from a Foucauldian understanding of subjectivity as a product of powerful discourses and techniques and based on an intersectional discourse analysis of interviews with different actors involved in this arrangement, it shows how the ideal live-in care worker combines professional and language skills with characteristics such as an intrinsic motivation, emotional competences, and adaptability. Ethnicity-related discourses play an important role in this context, be it with regard to highly valued qualities or as a justification for control and/or support, and thus serve as a means to reproduce power relations.

Keywords

EN

LIVE-IN CARE; MIGRANT CARE WORKERS; ETHNICISATION; AUSTRIA

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 483 – 501

Contributors

author

Prieler Veronika

• Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, 1018 WV Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2021.53.5.18