Global Old Age Care Industry

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.

“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)

• 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.