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Racism, the Industry’s Blind Spot

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Racialised Workers and European Older-Age Care

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If you see somebody oppressing someone, you have to speak up or if you can’t do anything, in your mind you have to be against it. But if you just sit down and watch, this makes you also a sinner, you understand? If you bear oppression, and if you don’t fight it, you also make a big sin, that’s why we have always to fight, we have to. Wherever you are, life is not easy, it’s always a challenge, always. This will make you stronger. What about you, are you a fighter? (Sameera, 32, Mauritius, London)

Sameera came from Mauritius 12 years ago. In Mauritius, she had been working in a pharmacy, and on arrival to the UK, she found employment in a pharmacy in London, though in a lower position.

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    http://www.irr.org.uk/news/culture-of-disbelief-why-race-discrimination-claims-fail-in-the-employment-tribunal/. Last accessed in February 2016.

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    Only a minority of participants were employed in domestic care in this research due to my focus on institutional care. Yet many respondents in Madrid were employed in domestic care prior to being recruited in residential care facilities. See Chap. 2 for an overview of the distribution of institutional versus household employers among participants.

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Sahraoui, N. (2019). Racism, the Industry’s Blind Spot. In: Racialised Workers and European Older-Age Care. Thinking Gender in Transnational Times. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14397-8_7

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