The Global Old Age Care Industry

This book focuses on the emerging global old age care industry developing as a response to tackle the old age care crisis in richer countries. In this global industry, multiple actors are involved in recruiting, skilling and placing migrant care workers in different spheres of the receiving country's old age care system. This book delves into the analysis of these actors and the multiple levels influencing their activities. Accordingly, it examines the significance of old age care regimes and policies as well as intermediaries and promoters for initiating, shaping and perpetuating old age care arrangements based on migrant labor and the relationships within them. Particular emphasis is placed on the risks and implications of these arrangements for the well-being and the social protection of the different actors involved. The book analyzes these processes and structures from a global perspective including different countries and regions of the world.

Examines the mechanisms, policies, strategies and actors that are involved in mobilizing, recruiting and placing migrant care workers from poorer countries in private households and long-term care services in richer countries Addresses a gap in the literature by investigating the complex entanglement and involvement of a growing number of actors in the recruitment and incorporation of migrants in national old age care systems, and how this shapes the delivery of old age care Provides a cutting-edge interdisciplinary and global analysis of the processes and mechanisms underlying the increasing migration of old age care workers in different countries and regions in the world

Auteur

Vincent Horn is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Education, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany. Cornelia Schweppe is Full Professor of Social Pedagogy at the Institute of Education, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany. Anita Böcker is Associate Professor of Sociology of Law at the Faculty of Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. María Bruquetas-Callejo is Research Fellow at Research Center for State and Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Résumé

"Nearly every country in the world is wrestling with two interconnected issues: care for aging persons and in/out-migration in which poorer countries send workers to richer ones. This edited volume highlights the roles played by migrant care workers across European and East Asian countries and demonstrates 'the increasing complexity and entanglements of migration and old-age care at the global level' ... ." (Boyd H. Davis, Anthropology & Aging, Vol. 45 (1), 2024)

Contenu

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 PolishGerman 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.