Overview
Provides new insights into the phenomenon of care migration beyond the typically studied cases in Central Europe
Refocuses scholarship on the source or sending country of migrant care workers
Uses quantitative survey methods in combination with qualitative interviews and theories of migration and labor
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book analyses the circular migration of care workers in Central Europe using the example of Slovak carers in 24-hour care provision for the elderly in Austria. Challenging analyses that focus primarily on care drain and care regimes, Bahna and Sekulová supplement quantitative methodology with qualitative fieldwork to demonstrate the importance of the sending country’s economic context. The authors discuss the dynamics of economic differences between Austria and its post-communist neighbors as preconditions of the crossborder care provision, bridging analyses of policy and legal frameworks with approaches from labor migration study. Even as they scrutinize the relevance of care drain-based analyses, Bahna and Sekulová bring to the fore the interplay of economic differences, social policies, gender and migration regimes with geographic proximity to study long-term impacts of care work, including an analysis of employment after care work.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Miloslav Bahna is a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences.
Martina Sekulová is a researcher with background in anthropology and expertise in migration, gender and human rights.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Crossborder Care
Book Subtitle: Lessons from Central Europe
Authors: Miloslav Bahna, Martina Sekulová
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97028-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97027-1Published: 12 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07287-2Published: 13 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97028-8Published: 25 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 149
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Work, Migration, Social Care, Social Structure, Social Inequality