Ute Karl - Böcker

Population ageing and the globalisation of international migration are challenging the research agendas of social scientists around the world, and posing numerous challenges for policy makers and practitioners whose goal is to formulate and design high-quality and user-friendly policies and services. Both of these phenomena have brought, for example, attention to the fact that more and more people around the world are ageing in countries other than those where they were born. The fact that elderly care sectors around the world need to recruit staff if they are to handle the growing number of older people that will need their services is also something that has been discussed when population ageing and the globalisation of international migration have been debated. The elderly care sector’s reliance on people with migrant backgrounds has namely increased as a result of these phenomena. This collection is therefore situated at the intersection of ageing and migration studies and takes into account the various issues with which this intersection is concerned. The chapters in this volume are written by established researchers in the field of ageing and migration around the world. The collection explores these issues in three sections:Elderly care regimes and migration regimes: national perspectivesAgeing in contexts of migration: a multifaceted phenomenonElderly care and migration.The expert contributions in this volume address the array of issues associated with the study of ageing, old age and elderly care in contexts of migration.

Population ageing and the globalisation of international migration are challenging the research agendas of social scientists around the world, and posing numerous challenges for policy makers and practitioners whose goal is to formulate and design high-quality and user-friendly policies and services. Both of these phenomena have brought, for example, attention to the fact that more and more people around the world are ageing in countries other than those where they were born. The fact that elderly care sectors around the world need to recruit staff if they are to handle the growing number of older people that will need their services is also something that has been discussed when population ageing and the globalisation of international migration have been debated. The elderly care sector’s reliance on people with migrant backgrounds has namely increased as a result of these phenomena. This collection is therefore situated at the intersection of ageing and migration studies and takes into account the various issues with which this intersection is concerned. The chapters in this volume are written by established researchers in the field of ageing and migration around the world. The collection explores these issues in three sections:Elderly care regimes and migration regimes: national perspectivesAgeing in contexts of migration: a multifaceted phenomenonElderly care and migration.The expert contributions in this volume address the array of issues associated with the study of ageing, old age and elderly care in contexts of migration.

Das Handbuch betrachtet – in einer umfassend überarbeiteten und ergänzten Auflage – die Lebensphase Alter aus der Perspektive der Sozialen Arbeit. Die Beiträge informieren über die historische und die aktuelle Entwicklung der Sozialen Arbeit mit älteren Menschen einschließlich dazugehöriger Theoriedebatten, stellen konkrete Handlungsfelder vor und betten diese in die Entwicklungen von Sozialpolitik und Sozialrecht ein. Darüber hinaus werden die Lebenslagen älterer Menschen differenziert dargestellt. Weitere Beiträge gewähren einen Einblick in ausgewählte disziplinäre Diskurse des Alter(n)s als soziale Konstruktion und in die institutionalisierte Alter(n)sforschung.Mit seinem umfassenden, systematischen und multidisziplinären Zuschnitt eignet sich das Handbuch für Studierende und Lehrende Sozialer Arbeit und zahlreicher anderer Disziplinen, in denen das Thema Alter zunehmend relevant wird. Darüber hinaus kann es Praktiker/-innen sozialer Einrichtungen undDienste, Sozial- und Kommunalpolitiker/-innen wie auch Verantwortlichen in Vereinen, Verbänden und Initiativen als Nachschlagewerk dienen.