Raquel Rojas Scheffer
International Research Training Group "Between Spaces"
Movements, Actors and Representations of Globalisation
PhD Candidate
Project: "Paid Domestic Work and Organizational Experiences. The Cases of Uruguay and Paraguay"
14195 Berlin
Education
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2012-2014 |
Master in Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany (DAAD Scholarship holder) |
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2009-2010 |
Specialist in Social Sciences with major in Social Development, Latin-American Faculty of Social Sciences - FLACSO Paraguay |
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2004-2009 |
Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences (Sociology), National University of Asunción, Paraguay |
Work Experience
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Since 2008 |
Researcher at Centro de Estudios y Educación Popular Germinal, Asunción-Paraguay |
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2011-2012 |
General Director at Fundación Casa de la Juventud, Asunción-Paraguay |
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2009-2011 |
General Coordinator at Fundación Casa de la Juventud, Asunción-Paraguay |
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3/2009-5/2009 |
Trainee at the European Parliament, Committee of International Trade, GUE/NGL Group, Brussels-Belgium |
Research Experience
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Since 2014 |
Group leader of the line of research on Conditional Cash Transfers, CEEP Germinal, Asunción-Paraguay |
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Since 2010 |
Group member of the research project on Social Dialogue and Tripartism in Paraguay in the decade 2000-2010, CEEP Germinal, Asunción-Paraguay |
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Since 2008 |
Group member of the line of research on the Paraguayan political and social system, CEEP Germinal, Asunción-Paraguay |
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2008-2010 |
Group member of the line of research on State Administration and Public Policies, CEEP Germinal, Asunción-Paraguay |
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2008-2009 |
Group member of the research project on The reform of Civil Service's Law, CEEP Germinal, Asunción-Paraguay |
Teaching Experience
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2001-2012 |
Teaching Assistant, Chair for Methodology of Scientific Research , Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, National University of Asunción, Paraguay |
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2006 |
Teaching Assistant, Chair for Social Research, School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, National University of Asunción, Paraguay |
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2005-2006 |
Teaching Assistant, Chair for Methodology of Scientific Research, School of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, National University of Asunción, Paraguay |
“Paid Domestic Work and Organizational Experiences. The Cases of Uruguay and Paraguay”
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sérgio Costa (FU Berlin)
Paid domestic work has been historically discriminated against, both in law and in practice. It was only within the past ten years that this occupational field started to gain political attention and recognition worldwide. In this respect, many Latin American countries adopted new laws in order to guarantee more rights for domestic workers, and several organizations of the sector have emerged and gotten stronger since then.
The research focuses on organizational experiences of paid domestic workers in Uruguay and Paraguay, particularly on the networks that they build with different types of organizations, within and across national borders. Specifically, I am interested in analyzing how the entanglements of different axes and dimensions of inequality that cut across this occupational field shape these networks and their outcomes.
The study focuses on organizational experiences in Uruguay and Paraguay, two close but significantly different cases regarding the participation of local actors (trade union confederations, feminist NGOs, migrant organizations, the State, and counterparts) and transnational actors (ILO, UN Women) in the struggle for more rights for the sector.
Articles in Scientific Journals
- (2015) "Por su propio bien. Condicionalidad y la imagen de la población pobre en políticas
sociales", in Novapolis, Vol. 8, p. 73-101. (ISBN: 2077-5172)
- (2014) "Programa de Transferencias Monetarias Condicionadas: ¿Puerta de entrada a derechos sociales? Un análisis a partir del Programa Tekoporã" , in Revista del Instituto de Ciencias Sociales REVICSO, Vol. 1, p. 37-57. (ISSN/ISBN: 2409-1189)
- (2009) "Le changement de gouvernement au Paraguay: le rôle de la gauche et les défis un an aprés la victoire de l'alternance", in Contradictions, Vol. 125, p. 109-120. (ISSN/ISBN: 0770-8521)
Online articles/ Working papers
- (2015) "El programa de Transferencias Monetarias Condicionadas Tekoporã en Paraguay: ¿Lucha contra la pobreza y desigualdad o por espacios de poder político", in Manuel Góngora Mera, Sérgio Costa, Guilherme Leite Gonçalves (eds.) Derecho en América Latina, ¿corrector o (re)productor de desigualdades?, Working Paper desiguALdades.net Vol. 81, p. 160-179
- (2011) Observatorio Sindical 2010, CEEP Germinal, Vol. 4 (with Marcello Lachi and Christian Cartagena Vidal)
- (2010) Observatorio Sindical 2009, CEEP Germinal, Vol. 3 (with Marcello Lachi and Christian Cartagena Vidal)
- (2009) Observatorio Sindical 2008, CEEP Germinal, Vol. 2 (with Marcello Lachi and Guillermo Rojas Brítez)
- (2008) Observatorio Sindical 2007, CEEP Germinal, Vol. 1 (with Marcello Lachi and Aníbal Benítez)
