Overview
- 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
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Policies and Regimes
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Promoters and Intermediaries
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Risks and Social Protection
Reviews
“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)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Global Old Age Care Industry
Book Subtitle: Tapping into migrants for tackling the old age care crisis
Editors: Vincent Horn, Cornelia Schweppe, Anita Böcker, María Bruquetas-Callejo
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2237-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2236-6Published: 15 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-16-2239-7Published: 16 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-2237-3Published: 14 August 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 325
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Medical Sociology, Social Work, Aging, Migration