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They teach us that we need to learn to separate emotions and work, I’m against it. For me for example, that’s my emotions that make me work with passion. That’s what makes me love each person. (Saba, 41, Cameroon, Paris)
Saba eagerly emphasised the importance of emotional commitment to carry out her work in a for-profit residential care home in Paris. Employed as a care assistant, Saba could not conceive of caring for older persons in a detached manner.
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First quote: http://www.fshc.co.uk, last accessed in April 2015. Second quote: http://www.caringhomes.org/what-we-offer/, last accessed in April 2015.
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http://www.cqc.org.uk/content/terms-endearment, last accessed February 2016.
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Sahraoui, N. (2019). Lived Precariousness Through Body and Mind. In: Racialised Workers and European Older-Age Care. Thinking Gender in Transnational Times. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14397-8_6
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