El difícil equilibrio entre trabajo y vida: arreglos para el cuidado de tres generaciones de migrantes caboverdianas

Abstract

The reconciliation of the personal, work and family spheres of migrants is an emerging issue in migration studies, with concepts such as the transnational family and global care chains. In this contribution we analyse the strategies deployed by several generations of Cape Verdean migrant women living in Galicia to cope with their jobs and the domestic and care work in their households. Special consideration is given to the role played by the migratory cycle, labour niches and the extended family in the type of work-life balance strategies that result. This research is based on a multi-situated ethnography with Cape Verdean migrant families between the island of Santiago in Cape Verde and the Galician town of Burela.