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- Title
Emploi domestique en Afrique noire subsaharienne : entre vulnérabilité et stratégies de subsistance d'une catégorie professionnelle en pleine expansion.
- Authors
NGOUYAMSA, Valentin; FOBASSO GUEDJO, Trésor
- Abstract
The job of domestic employee is the subject of social clichés in sub-Saharan black Africa. Being a housekeeper or housekeeper is often synonymous with "missing a life. The physical, financial, moral and sometimes sexual violence that domestic employees experience on a daily basis, while making them vulnerable, often place them at the bottom of the socioprofessional class. But this vulnerability does not influence the flow and enthusiasm of young people to this sector of activity. From Cameroonian cases, this article analyzes the social constructs and strategies deployed by domestic employees in order to engage and / or practice this profession in an unfavorable context. From a strategic perspective, the qualitative and quantitative data collected from employers and domestic employees reveal that they show ingenuity in producing a variety of practices through which they manage to endure the abuses to which they are subjected. . Consequently, their obstinacy in exercising this profession, despite the context of vulnerability, results from the application of a situational intelligence in the face of the precarious environment and the uncertainty of tomorrow.
- Subjects
HOUSEHOLD employees; HOUSEKEEPERS; PROFESSIONAL orientations; PSYCHOLOGICAL vulnerability; SEXUAL assault
- Publication
Cahiers de l'IREA, 2020, Issue 40, p137
- ISSN
2492-8267
- Publication type
Article