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The Global Old Age Care Industry: Tapping Into Migrants for Tackling the Old Age Care Crisis

The Global Old Age Care Industry: Tapping Into Migrants for Tackling the Old Age Care Crisis

Horn, Vincent
Schweppe, Cornelia
Böcker, Anita

Hardcover

Aging & Elder CarePublic HealthPoverty & Social Work

ISBN10: 9811622361
ISBN13: 9789811622366
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Aug 15 2021
Pages: 325
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
1. Introduction: The Global Old-Age Care Industry: Tapping into care labor across and within national borders.- Part I: Policies and Regimes.- 2. When the Local Meets the Global: Changing Face of Old-Age Care in Japan.- 3. Family Carers' Expectations and Strategies in Shaping Live-in Migrant Carer Arrangements: A Comparison between Germany and the Netherlands.- 4. The 'Care Mix' adopted by Belgian Families and the Growing Presence of Migrant Workers in Old-age care in Belgium.- 5. Individual Trajectories and Intersecting Regimes: Methodological Reflections on Researching Migrant Care Work.- Part II: Promoters and Intermediaries.- 6. Self-regulation in a Grey Market? Insights from the Emerging Polish-German Business Field of Live-in Care Brokerage.- 7. Caritas' Commitment to Fair and Legal Employment of Live-in Migrant Carers in Germany - A Report from Practice.- 8. Pragmatic inattention and win-win narratives: How Finnish eldercare managers make sense of foreign-born care workers' structural disadvantage.- 9. Social Dynamics and Concepts of Good Care Affecting the Interaction between Established Employees and Newcomers in a German Nursing Home.- Part III: Risks and Social Protection.- 10. Everyday Vulnerability: Work and Health Experiences of Live-In Migrant Care Workers in Taiwan.- 11. Transnational Social Protection for Migrant Care Workers. The Experiences, Practices of and Hurdles for Self-Employed 24-hour Care Workers.- 12. Social Support Within and Outside Care Networks: Experiences of Live-in Migrant Care Workers in the Netherlands.- 13. Elder Abuse in Live-in Migrant Carer Arrangements.

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