Periodic Reporting for period 1 - PRECNIGHTS (Precarity Amongst Women Migrant Nightworkers in Ireland)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2022-09-01 do 2024-08-31
In line with Annex 1 of the Grant Agreement for this project, all five packages were carried out. As part of this project, there were four research objectives and three training objectives. The project has achieved most of its objectives and milestones for the period, with relatively minor deviations.
The following details the work carried out during the fellowship towards the achievement of the four scientific objectives. They all informed the Research Study carried out as part of WP1:
Objective 1. This objective was accomplished through 8 months of nocturnal fieldwork in Dublin and Cork. The empirical material resulting for this research objective consists of 14 audio-video interviews in Dublin and Cork with women from South America (7), South Africa (1) and Central and Eastern Europe (6).
Objective 2. This objective was achieved through conducting 2 focus groups with 13 African women working as Health Care Assistants and cleaners in the care sector and private residences with elderly and hospitals in Mallow and Cork. These migrant women nightworkers balanced nightwork duties with childcare and responsibilities from transnational relationships, at and away from home.
Objective 3. As with the Research Objective 2, this objective was achieved through the audio-video interviews. In addition to interviews with women migrants, I also audio-video interviewed 2 Irish males in supervising positions of women migrant nightworkers in fast-food take aways in Cork. These data (observations, field notes, interviews, summary of health data) are thematically analysed based on an interpretivist approach, that I have experience with, to provide conceptual categories for an embodied understanding of precarity, incorporating audio-visual summaries of daily/nightly activities, and health statistics on weight and blood pressure.
Objective 4. In the first phase of analysing the empirical, resulted from RO1, 2 and 3, and this objective, these data has been incorporated in the updated edition (2023) of the Nightworker Charter, a communication and public anthropology engagement tool to reach out to mixed audiences (UniEUropa, and European Economic and Social Community, Brussels). This objective was in large part accomplished also by releasing Deliverable 5.4 PRECNIGHTS Policy Brief: Out of sight, Not out of mind. It is uploaded onto ECAS and Indexed in OpenAire on Zenodo repository.
Ultimately, this objective will be fully accomplished through the publication of two book chapters and a short book.
Book chapter: ‘The essential work of migrant women in Ireland: Connects and disconnects between hidden women nightworkers and mainstream Irish society’ (3,000 – 5,000 words book chapter); Routhledge Handbook on Nighttime Economy
Book: Nightnography: Creative Methods for Nocturnal Research (Single Author / 30,000 – 40,000 words how-t0 textbook ) Bristol University / Policy Press Shorts Creative Methods Series.In line with Annex 1 of the Grant Agreement for this project, all five packages were carried out. As part of this project, there were four research objectives and three training objectives. The project has achieved most of its objectives and milestones for the period, with relatively minor deviations.
The following details the work carried out during the fellowship towards the achievement of the four scientific objectives. They all informed the Research Study carried out as part of WP1:
Objective 1. This objective was accomplished through 8 months of nocturnal fieldwork in Dublin and Cork. The empirical material resulting for this research objective consists of 14 audio-video interviews in Dublin and Cork with women from South America (7), South Africa (1) and Central and Eastern Europe (6).
Objective 2. This objective was achieved through conducting 2 focus groups with 13 African women working as Health Care Assistants and cleaners in the care sector and private residences with elderly and hospitals in Mallow and Cork. These migrant women nightworkers balanced nightwork duties with childcare and responsibilities from transnational relationships, at and away from home.
Objective 3. As with the Research Objective 2, this objective was achieved through the audio-video interviews. In addition to interviews with women migrants, I also audio-video interviewed 2 Irish males in supervising positions of women migrant nightworkers in fast-food take aways in Cork. These data (observations, field notes, interviews, summary of health data) are thematically analysed based on an interpretivist approach, that I have experience with, to provide conceptual categories for an embodied understanding of precarity, incorporating audio-visual summaries of daily/nightly activities, and health statistics on weight and blood pressure.
Objective 4. In the first phase of analysing the empirical, resulted from RO1, 2 and 3, and this objective, these data has been incorporated in the updated edition (2023) of the Nightworker Charter, a communication and public anthropology engagement tool to reach out to mixed audiences (UniEUropa, and European Economic and Social Community, Brussels). This objective was in large part accomplished also by releasing Deliverable 5.4 PRECNIGHTS Policy Brief: Out of sight, Not out of mind. It is uploaded onto ECAS and Indexed in OpenAire on Zenodo repository.
Ultimately, this objective will be fully accomplished through the publication of two book chapters and a short book.
Book chapter: ‘The essential work of migrant women in Ireland: Connects and disconnects between hidden women nightworkers and mainstream Irish society’ (3,000 – 5,000 words book chapter); Routhledge Handbook on Nighttime Economy
Book: Nightnography: Creative Methods for Nocturnal Research (Single Author / 30,000 – 40,000 words how-t0 textbook ) Bristol University / Policy Press Shorts Creative Methods Series.
The following details the work carried out during the fellowship towards the achievement of the four scientific objectives. They all informed the Research Study carried out as part of WP1:
Objective 1. This objective was accomplished through 8 months of nocturnal fieldwork in Dublin and Cork. The empirical material resulting for this research objective consists of 14 audio-video interviews in Dublin and Cork with women from South America (7), South Africa (1) and Central and Eastern Europe (6).
Objective 2. This objective was achieved through conducting 2 focus groups with 13 African women working as Health Care Assistants and cleaners in the care sector and private residences with elderly and hospitals in Mallow and Cork. These migrant women nightworkers balanced nightwork duties with childcare and responsibilities from transnational relationships, at and away from home.
Objective 3. As with the Research Objective 2, this objective was achieved through the audio-video interviews. In addition to interviews with women migrants, I also audio-video interviewed 2 Irish males in supervising positions of women migrant nightworkers in fast-food take aways in Cork. These data (observations, field notes, interviews, summary of health data) are thematically analysed based on an interpretivist approach, that I have experience with, to provide conceptual categories for an embodied understanding of precarity, incorporating audio-visual summaries of daily/nightly activities, and health statistics on weight and blood pressure.
Objective 4. In the first phase of analysing the empirical, resulted from RO1, 2 and 3, and this objective, these data has been incorporated in the updated edition (2023) of the Nightworker Charter, a communication and public anthropology engagement tool to reach out to mixed audiences (UniEUropa, and European Economic and Social Community, Brussels). This objective was in large part accomplished also by releasing Deliverable 5.4 PRECNIGHTS Policy Brief: Out of sight, Not out of mind. It is uploaded onto ECAS and Indexed in OpenAire on Zenodo repository.
Ultimately, this objective will be fully accomplished through the publication of two book chapters and a short book.
Book chapter: ‘The essential work of migrant women in Ireland: Connects and disconnects between hidden women nightworkers and mainstream Irish society’ (3,000 – 5,000 words book chapter); Routhledge Handbook on Nighttime Economy
Book: Nightnography: Creative Methods for Nocturnal Research (Single Author / 30,000 – 40,000 words how-t0 textbook ) Bristol University / Policy Press Shorts Creative Methods Series.In line with Annex 1 of the Grant Agreement for this project, all five packages were carried out. As part of this project, there were four research objectives and three training objectives. The project has achieved most of its objectives and milestones for the period, with relatively minor deviations.
The following details the work carried out during the fellowship towards the achievement of the four scientific objectives. They all informed the Research Study carried out as part of WP1:
Objective 1. This objective was accomplished through 8 months of nocturnal fieldwork in Dublin and Cork. The empirical material resulting for this research objective consists of 14 audio-video interviews in Dublin and Cork with women from South America (7), South Africa (1) and Central and Eastern Europe (6).
Objective 2. This objective was achieved through conducting 2 focus groups with 13 African women working as Health Care Assistants and cleaners in the care sector and private residences with elderly and hospitals in Mallow and Cork. These migrant women nightworkers balanced nightwork duties with childcare and responsibilities from transnational relationships, at and away from home.
Objective 3. As with the Research Objective 2, this objective was achieved through the audio-video interviews. In addition to interviews with women migrants, I also audio-video interviewed 2 Irish males in supervising positions of women migrant nightworkers in fast-food take aways in Cork. These data (observations, field notes, interviews, summary of health data) are thematically analysed based on an interpretivist approach, that I have experience with, to provide conceptual categories for an embodied understanding of precarity, incorporating audio-visual summaries of daily/nightly activities, and health statistics on weight and blood pressure.
Objective 4. In the first phase of analysing the empirical, resulted from RO1, 2 and 3, and this objective, these data has been incorporated in the updated edition (2023) of the Nightworker Charter, a communication and public anthropology engagement tool to reach out to mixed audiences (UniEUropa, and European Economic and Social Community, Brussels). This objective was in large part accomplished also by releasing Deliverable 5.4 PRECNIGHTS Policy Brief: Out of sight, Not out of mind. It is uploaded onto ECAS and Indexed in OpenAire on Zenodo repository.
Ultimately, this objective will be fully accomplished through the publication of two book chapters and a short book.
Book chapter: ‘The essential work of migrant women in Ireland: Connects and disconnects between hidden women nightworkers and mainstream Irish society’ (3,000 – 5,000 words book chapter); Routhledge Handbook on Nighttime Economy
Book: Nightnography: Creative Methods for Nocturnal Research (Single Author / 30,000 – 40,000 words how-t0 textbook ) Bristol University / Policy Press Shorts Creative Methods Series.
So far the main scientific achievements have been academic peer-reviewed publications completed during this study. The book is published with the prestigious academic publisher Springer and thus boosts the dissemination of research and the publication’s contribution to the literature’s state of the art via university libraries, making it available to students at a more accessible rate:
• Citation: MacQuarie, J-C. (2023). Invisible Migrant Nightworkers in 24/7 London. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer Cham. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36186-9
This forthcoming book chapter is important for this project as the data collected in 2022, was used for its preliminary role to plan and develop the PRECNIGHTS fieldwork.
• Citation: MacQuarie, J-C. (2024). A nightnography of food couriers: Social inequalities in platform work. In Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces. Cities and Cultures series. Open Access. Amsterdam University Press BV: Amsterdam.
The publications are important achievements as they disseminate findings from the study. The following includes a list of the main scientific achievements arising from this fellowship.
Two shorter book chapters have been accepted for the forthcoming publications:
• Invited to contribute with a short book chapter (1,500 – 3,000 words) by book editors Piotr Goldstein & Iepke Rijcken (Eds.) in Playful Convivial Multimodal Research Handbook (submission accepted by Manchester University Press).
• Short book Chapter ‘The essential work of migrant women in Ireland: Connects and disconnects between hidden women nightworkers and mainstream Irish society’ (3,000 – 5,000 words book chapter), in an upcoming textbook Routledge Handbook of Nighttime Economy edited by Will Straw (McGill Uni), Alessio Koliulis (UCL), and Reia Jess (Virginia Uni).
• Citation: MacQuarie, J-C. (2023). Invisible Migrant Nightworkers in 24/7 London. IMISCOE Research Series. Springer Cham. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36186-9
This forthcoming book chapter is important for this project as the data collected in 2022, was used for its preliminary role to plan and develop the PRECNIGHTS fieldwork.
• Citation: MacQuarie, J-C. (2024). A nightnography of food couriers: Social inequalities in platform work. In Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces. Cities and Cultures series. Open Access. Amsterdam University Press BV: Amsterdam.
The publications are important achievements as they disseminate findings from the study. The following includes a list of the main scientific achievements arising from this fellowship.
Two shorter book chapters have been accepted for the forthcoming publications:
• Invited to contribute with a short book chapter (1,500 – 3,000 words) by book editors Piotr Goldstein & Iepke Rijcken (Eds.) in Playful Convivial Multimodal Research Handbook (submission accepted by Manchester University Press).
• Short book Chapter ‘The essential work of migrant women in Ireland: Connects and disconnects between hidden women nightworkers and mainstream Irish society’ (3,000 – 5,000 words book chapter), in an upcoming textbook Routledge Handbook of Nighttime Economy edited by Will Straw (McGill Uni), Alessio Koliulis (UCL), and Reia Jess (Virginia Uni).
The fellowship, primarily through the research study, has contributed directly to knowledge, to the state-of-the-art, and beyond. As part of my professional activities dedicated to support the research community, I have been an organiser, convener, campaigner, and a regular contributor to anthropology (AAA, EASA), Night Studies (INSN), and migration (IMISCOE) online and in-person events, which resulted in the following:
I have designed a unique methodology, the ‘nightnographic’ approach for labour migration studies and the anthropology of the night. I have also assembled a multi-modal approach to teaching and research, emphasising the importance of embodied research. This approach complements conventional practices and extends to scoping together with the students in out-of-the-classroom exercises the urban evening- and nightscapes of a city.
The approach includes training students and researchers in observational notes, photographs, audio recordings, and sketches of neighbourhoods through walks on streets and in markets, in bus and train stations and stops in shops and hotels. In her praise for the Invisible Migrant Nightworkers in 24/7 London, Professor Violetta Zentai from the Departments of Public Policy & Social Anthropology at Central European University (Vienna/Budapest), writes that ‘the book cogently unpacks the experiences of embodied precarity … the nightnographic component adds an original dimension to the inquiry’.
I have designed a unique methodology, the ‘nightnographic’ approach for labour migration studies and the anthropology of the night. I have also assembled a multi-modal approach to teaching and research, emphasising the importance of embodied research. This approach complements conventional practices and extends to scoping together with the students in out-of-the-classroom exercises the urban evening- and nightscapes of a city.
The approach includes training students and researchers in observational notes, photographs, audio recordings, and sketches of neighbourhoods through walks on streets and in markets, in bus and train stations and stops in shops and hotels. In her praise for the Invisible Migrant Nightworkers in 24/7 London, Professor Violetta Zentai from the Departments of Public Policy & Social Anthropology at Central European University (Vienna/Budapest), writes that ‘the book cogently unpacks the experiences of embodied precarity … the nightnographic component adds an original dimension to the inquiry’.