Full Description
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.
Contents
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.
