We Are Tired—The Sharing of Unpaid Work between ImmigrantWomen and Men in Portugal

Silva, Estefânia; Casimiro, Claudia; Vieira, Cristina Pereira; Costa, Paulo Manuel; Topa, Joana; Neves, Sofia; Borges, Janete; Sousa, Mafalda

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We Are Tired—The Sharing of Unpaid Work between ImmigrantWomen and Men in Portugal

2023-08-18Periodical

datacite.subject.fos	Ciências Sociais
dc.contributor.author	Silva, Estefânia
dc.contributor.author	Casimiro, Claudia
dc.contributor.author	Vieira, Cristina Pereira
dc.contributor.author	Costa, Paulo Manuel
dc.contributor.author	Topa, Joana
dc.contributor.author	Neves, Sofia
dc.contributor.author	Borges, Janete
dc.contributor.author	Sousa, Mafalda
dc.contributor.editor	Santos, Maria Helena
dc.contributor.editor	Cerqueira, Carla
dc.date.accessioned	2025-04-03T16:15:32Z
dc.date.available	2025-04-03T16:15:32Z
dc.date.issued	2023-08-18
dc.description.abstract	In this article, we intend to understand and discuss how immigrant men and women living in Portugal perceive their contributions to the performance of unpaid work and how they try to deal with the situation of the greater burden on women. To this end, a qualitative methodology was used to conduct an exploratory study with 10 focus groups of immigrant men and women in five regions of the country: North, Centre, Lisbon, Alentejo and Algarve. The participants, 43 females and 27 males, were aged between 19 and 80 years. From the discourse of the immigrant participants in this study, it could be concluded that the division of unpaid work between immigrant women and men is not equal, as their statements evidenced a greater responsibility and overload on women. From a traditional vision of gender roles, a persistent dichotomy of two worlds could be perceived, based on a “naturalized” vision of the social roles of gender and on a distribution grounded in biological differences. In parallel, discourses show a change in the sharing of household chores and childcare. However, this does not always occur regularly and appears very much associated with the entry of women into the paid labour market.	por
dc.identifier.doi	10.3390/ socsci12080460
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.24/2717
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.peerreviewed	yes
dc.rights.uri	N/A
dc.subject	Immigrant men and women
dc.subject	Sharing unpaid work
dc.subject	Portugal
dc.title	We Are Tired—The Sharing of Unpaid Work between ImmigrantWomen and Men in Portugal	por
dc.type	periodical
dspace.entity.type	Publication
oaire.citation.endPage	15
oaire.citation.issue	460
oaire.citation.startPage	2
oaire.citation.title	Social Sciences
oaire.citation.volume	12
oaire.version	http://purl.org/coar/version/c_be7fb7dd8ff6fe43