Cadenes globals de cures feminitzades a Lleida. Estudi sociològic sobre les condicions de vida i laborals de treballadores de cures migrants a Lleida

This report highlights the precariousness of our society when it has to do with caring for and sustaining life in a context of care crisis. It evaluates the social and labour conditions of a sample of migrant women who, leaving their family (sons and daughters and elderly parents) in their places of origin, come to our homes to work in the care of elderly people in a situation of dependency.

A familiarised social structure, the lack of generational prominence, female paid work, the reduction in the number of people in households and the individualization of lifestyles, in an over-aged rural territory, raise through the figure of the migrant woman in the framework of globalization, a new sexual re-stratification of work, which once again directly affects women.

The life trajectories of these women highlight the urgency of a greater commitment and social co-responsibility in relation to the guarantee of their human rights (in the legal, labour, sexual and social spheres) and at the same time give value to social sustainability in the rural world, over-aging, loneliness and the need for quality care for the elderly.