Francesca Scrinzi
Biographic Data
| ID | 290543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesca Scrinzi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesca |
| FAMILY NAME | Scrinzi |
| SIGNATURE | SCRINZI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2736-0562 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Gender and the Far-Right
The role of gender in far-right parties and movements received little attention until the twentieth century, when feminist and masculinity studies began to draw attention to women's participation in these politics and the gendered nature of men's far-right activism. In the past decade, research in this area has flourished, creating a distinct subspecialty. This review focuses on recent scholarship on the discourse and practices of femininity/wome…
Response to Christina Xydias’s review of The Racialization of Sexism
Populist Radical Right Frames of Gender and Sexuality in France and Italy
Drawing on Critical Frame Analysis, and bringing together research on the populist radical right (PRR) and on anti-gender campaigns, this article explores how two main PRR transnational frames—the anti-gender and the “racialization of sexism” frame—are combined and recontextualized, varying over time and across contexts. It focuses on how the Rassemblement national (France) and the Lega (Italy) frame gender/sexuality to target the gendered intern…
Moralized Mobilities. A Multi-scalar Analysis of the Role of Religion in Migrant Care Work
The globalization of care work constitutes a major equality issue in contemporary societies. Although the relevance of religion and morality in constructing/organizing migrant care work (MCW) is acknowledged, their role remains under-theorized, and the debate has mainly centered on secular actors/processes. Yet organized religions carry specific gender/ethnic projects and are concerned with regulating social reproduction. Based on a critical lite…
The Racialization of Sexism
Populist radical right (PRR) parties are questioning women’s rights and sexual democracy. Yet paradoxically they appropriate issues of gender+ equality to attack migrants and to mobilize a growing number of women as voters and members, based on a ‘racialization of sexism’ discourse. This book engages with these puzzling developments in order to investigate the evolving ideologies of PRR parties and their understudied membership from a gender pers…
Migrant masculinities in-between private and public spaces of reproductive labour
This article explores the construction of migrant masculinities in the context of reproductive labour. It focuses on Asian Christian men working as porters in upper middle-class residential buildings in Rome (Italy). This masculinised niche of reproductive labour combines differently gendered chores: feminised tasks (cleaning and caring) - mainly performed in the most private spaces of the home - and masculinised tasks (maintenance and security),…
"Beyond "Women's Work
Based on qualitative data, this article focuses on management practices in social cooperatives operating as nonprofit providers of domiciliary care services in Italy. Their livelihood is eroded by the presence of migrant live-in caregivers, who are privately employed, inexpensive, and often irregular. This competition is not only economic but also symbolic, as it jeopardizes the managers’ attempts to define care work as a skilled job and reproduc…
Caring for the elderly in the family or in the nation? Gender, women and migrant care labour in the Lega Nord
Published online: 21 Feb 2017
Migration, Masculinities and Reproductive Labour
This innovative book analyses the role gender plays in the relationship between globalisation, migration and reproductive labour. Exploring the gendered experiences of migrant men and the social construction of racialised masculinities in the context of the 'international division of reproductive labour' (IDRL), it examines how new patterns of consumption and provision of paid domestic/care work lead to forms of inequality across racial, ethnic, …
Outsourcing Elderly Care to Migrant Workers
This article, based on semi-structured interviews, addresses masculinity in the international division of reproductive labour through an analysis of the impact of gender and class on the outsourcing of elderly care services to migrant care workers. In the Italian context, characterised by a limited provision of long-term care services and by cash-for-care benefits, the strategies of men as employers of migrant care workers are shaped by class and…
Migrations critiques
Gender, Migration and the Ambiguous Enterprise of Professionalizing Domestic Service
This article aims to contribute to current debates about international migration and the restructuring of the Welfare state in Europe, by highlighting the specificities of the French context. It draws on ethnographic research about the training of unemployed migrant women as domestic workers in Paris to address the ambiguities that underlie the enterprise of professionalizing domestic service. The qualitative data presented in the article show ho…
Masculinities and the International Division of Care
Drawing on ethnographic data concerning migrant male domestic workers, this article examines the gendered dimensions of the process of racialization in Italy and France. First, it shows that specific racialized constructions of masculinity are mobilized by the employers as well as by training and recruitment agencies. These constructions of masculinity are related to different forms of organization of the sector in each country and to different i…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Very little scholarship exists, which investigates male domestic workers. Yet they constitute a highly interesting vantage point from which to analyze the gendered and racialized division of labor as well as the social constructions of masculinity in both contemporary societies and in the past. In several countries nowadays a large number of domestic workers are migrants. By focusing on men employed as domestic workers in different societies, in …
Quelques notions pour penser l'articulation des rapports sociaux de « race », de classe et de sexe
Les recherches féministes en France sont en train d’approfondir la réflexion sur les articulations entre les rapports sociaux de sexe, de « race » et de classe, alors que la sociologie des migrations et des relations interethniques travaille à l’incorporation des rapports sociaux de sexe dans ses enquêtes et ses formulations. Ce texte se propose de présenter quelques-unes des notions développées pour intégrer l’analyse du racisme et de l’ethnicit…
Ma culture dans laquelle elle travaille ». Les migrantes dans les services domestiques en Italie et en France
Depuis les années quatre-vingt-dix la recherche féministe a souligné l’importance de la notion de « household » et de « travail de reproduction » dans l’étude des migrations comme phénomènes genrés. Au cours des dernières années, un certain nombre d’études ont été consacrées en particulier à l’emploi massif des femmes migrantes dans les services domestiques. Loin d’être le résidu d’un âge révolu, les services à la personne font en Europe l’objet …
Introduction to the Special Issue
Very little scholarship exists, which investigates male domestic workers. Yet they constitute a highly interesting vantage point from which to analyze the gendered and racialized division of labor as well as the social constructions of masculinity in both contemporary societies and in the past. In several countries nowadays a large number of domestic workers are migrants. By focusing on men employed as domestic workers in different societies, in …
Masculinities and the International Division of Care
Drawing on ethnographic data concerning migrant male domestic workers, this article examines the gendered dimensions of the process of racialization in Italy and France. First, it shows that specific racialized constructions of masculinity are mobilized by the employers as well as by training and recruitment agencies. These constructions of masculinity are related to different forms of organization of the sector in each country and to different i…
Migrant masculinities in-between private and public spaces of reproductive labour
This article explores the construction of migrant masculinities in the context of reproductive labour. It focuses on Asian Christian men working as porters in upper middle-class residential buildings in Rome (Italy). This masculinised niche of reproductive labour combines differently gendered chores: feminised tasks (cleaning and caring) - mainly performed in the most private spaces of the home - and masculinised tasks (maintenance and security),…
Outsourcing Elderly Care to Migrant Workers
This article, based on semi-structured interviews, addresses masculinity in the international division of reproductive labour through an analysis of the impact of gender and class on the outsourcing of elderly care services to migrant care workers. In the Italian context, characterised by a limited provision of long-term care services and by cash-for-care benefits, the strategies of men as employers of migrant care workers are shaped by class and…
Quelques notions pour penser l'articulation des rapports sociaux de « race », de classe et de sexe
Les recherches féministes en France sont en train d’approfondir la réflexion sur les articulations entre les rapports sociaux de sexe, de « race » et de classe, alors que la sociologie des migrations et des relations interethniques travaille à l’incorporation des rapports sociaux de sexe dans ses enquêtes et ses formulations. Ce texte se propose de présenter quelques-unes des notions développées pour intégrer l’analyse du racisme et de l’ethnicit…
Caring for the elderly in the family or in the nation? Gender, women and migrant care labour in the Lega Nord
Published online: 21 Feb 2017
Gender, Migration and the Ambiguous Enterprise of Professionalizing Domestic Service
This article aims to contribute to current debates about international migration and the restructuring of the Welfare state in Europe, by highlighting the specificities of the French context. It draws on ethnographic research about the training of unemployed migrant women as domestic workers in Paris to address the ambiguities that underlie the enterprise of professionalizing domestic service. The qualitative data presented in the article show ho…
Ma culture dans laquelle elle travaille ». Les migrantes dans les services domestiques en Italie et en France
Depuis les années quatre-vingt-dix la recherche féministe a souligné l’importance de la notion de « household » et de « travail de reproduction » dans l’étude des migrations comme phénomènes genrés. Au cours des dernières années, un certain nombre d’études ont été consacrées en particulier à l’emploi massif des femmes migrantes dans les services domestiques. Loin d’être le résidu d’un âge révolu, les services à la personne font en Europe l’objet …
Moralized Mobilities. A Multi-scalar Analysis of the Role of Religion in Migrant Care Work
The globalization of care work constitutes a major equality issue in contemporary societies. Although the relevance of religion and morality in constructing/organizing migrant care work (MCW) is acknowledged, their role remains under-theorized, and the debate has mainly centered on secular actors/processes. Yet organized religions carry specific gender/ethnic projects and are concerned with regulating social reproduction. Based on a critical lite…
"Beyond "Women's Work
Based on qualitative data, this article focuses on management practices in social cooperatives operating as nonprofit providers of domiciliary care services in Italy. Their livelihood is eroded by the presence of migrant live-in caregivers, who are privately employed, inexpensive, and often irregular. This competition is not only economic but also symbolic, as it jeopardizes the managers’ attempts to define care work as a skilled job and reproduc…
Ma culture dans laquelle elle travaille ». Les migrantes dans les services domestiques en Italie et en France
Depuis les années quatre-vingt-dix la recherche féministe a souligné l’importance de la notion de « household » et de « travail de reproduction » dans l’étude des migrations comme phénomènes genrés. Au cours des dernières années, un certain nombre d’études ont été consacrées en particulier à l’emploi massif des femmes migrantes dans les services domestiques. Loin d’être le résidu d’un âge révolu, les services à la personne font en Europe l’objet …
Quelques notions pour penser l'articulation des rapports sociaux de « race », de classe et de sexe
Les recherches féministes en France sont en train d’approfondir la réflexion sur les articulations entre les rapports sociaux de sexe, de « race » et de classe, alors que la sociologie des migrations et des relations interethniques travaille à l’incorporation des rapports sociaux de sexe dans ses enquêtes et ses formulations. Ce texte se propose de présenter quelques-unes des notions développées pour intégrer l’analyse du racisme et de l’ethnicit…
Masculinities and the International Division of Care
Drawing on ethnographic data concerning migrant male domestic workers, this article examines the gendered dimensions of the process of racialization in Italy and France. First, it shows that specific racialized constructions of masculinity are mobilized by the employers as well as by training and recruitment agencies. These constructions of masculinity are related to different forms of organization of the sector in each country and to different i…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Very little scholarship exists, which investigates male domestic workers. Yet they constitute a highly interesting vantage point from which to analyze the gendered and racialized division of labor as well as the social constructions of masculinity in both contemporary societies and in the past. In several countries nowadays a large number of domestic workers are migrants. By focusing on men employed as domestic workers in different societies, in …
Migrations critiques
Gender, Migration and the Ambiguous Enterprise of Professionalizing Domestic Service
This article aims to contribute to current debates about international migration and the restructuring of the Welfare state in Europe, by highlighting the specificities of the French context. It draws on ethnographic research about the training of unemployed migrant women as domestic workers in Paris to address the ambiguities that underlie the enterprise of professionalizing domestic service. The qualitative data presented in the article show ho…
Migration, Masculinities and Reproductive Labour
This innovative book analyses the role gender plays in the relationship between globalisation, migration and reproductive labour. Exploring the gendered experiences of migrant men and the social construction of racialised masculinities in the context of the 'international division of reproductive labour' (IDRL), it examines how new patterns of consumption and provision of paid domestic/care work lead to forms of inequality across racial, ethnic, …
Outsourcing Elderly Care to Migrant Workers
This article, based on semi-structured interviews, addresses masculinity in the international division of reproductive labour through an analysis of the impact of gender and class on the outsourcing of elderly care services to migrant care workers. In the Italian context, characterised by a limited provision of long-term care services and by cash-for-care benefits, the strategies of men as employers of migrant care workers are shaped by class and…
Caring for the elderly in the family or in the nation? Gender, women and migrant care labour in the Lega Nord
Published online: 21 Feb 2017
Migrant masculinities in-between private and public spaces of reproductive labour
This article explores the construction of migrant masculinities in the context of reproductive labour. It focuses on Asian Christian men working as porters in upper middle-class residential buildings in Rome (Italy). This masculinised niche of reproductive labour combines differently gendered chores: feminised tasks (cleaning and caring) - mainly performed in the most private spaces of the home - and masculinised tasks (maintenance and security),…
"Beyond "Women's Work
Based on qualitative data, this article focuses on management practices in social cooperatives operating as nonprofit providers of domiciliary care services in Italy. Their livelihood is eroded by the presence of migrant live-in caregivers, who are privately employed, inexpensive, and often irregular. This competition is not only economic but also symbolic, as it jeopardizes the managers’ attempts to define care work as a skilled job and reproduc…
The Racialization of Sexism
Populist radical right (PRR) parties are questioning women’s rights and sexual democracy. Yet paradoxically they appropriate issues of gender+ equality to attack migrants and to mobilize a growing number of women as voters and members, based on a ‘racialization of sexism’ discourse. This book engages with these puzzling developments in order to investigate the evolving ideologies of PRR parties and their understudied membership from a gender pers…
Response to Christina Xydias’s review of The Racialization of Sexism
Populist Radical Right Frames of Gender and Sexuality in France and Italy
Drawing on Critical Frame Analysis, and bringing together research on the populist radical right (PRR) and on anti-gender campaigns, this article explores how two main PRR transnational frames—the anti-gender and the “racialization of sexism” frame—are combined and recontextualized, varying over time and across contexts. It focuses on how the Rassemblement national (France) and the Lega (Italy) frame gender/sexuality to target the gendered intern…
Moralized Mobilities. A Multi-scalar Analysis of the Role of Religion in Migrant Care Work
The globalization of care work constitutes a major equality issue in contemporary societies. Although the relevance of religion and morality in constructing/organizing migrant care work (MCW) is acknowledged, their role remains under-theorized, and the debate has mainly centered on secular actors/processes. Yet organized religions carry specific gender/ethnic projects and are concerned with regulating social reproduction. Based on a critical lite…
Gender and the Far-Right
The role of gender in far-right parties and movements received little attention until the twentieth century, when feminist and masculinity studies began to draw attention to women's participation in these politics and the gendered nature of men's far-right activism. In the past decade, research in this area has flourished, creating a distinct subspecialty. This review focuses on recent scholarship on the discourse and practices of femininity/wome…
Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender (5 works) · Care work (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works)