The Employment of Migrant Workers in Long-Term Care: Dynamics of Choice and Control

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
ISABEL SHUTES
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Home Care Providers ◽  
And Control

AbstractThe employment of migrant workers in long-term care is increasingly evident across western welfare states. This article examines the ways in which immigration controls shape the exercising of choice and control by migrant care workers over their labour. It draws on the findings of in-depth interviews with migrant care workers employed by residential and home care providers and by older people and their families in the UK. It is argued that the differential rights accorded to migrants on the basis of citizenship and immigration status shape, first, entry into particular types of care work, second, powers of ‘exit’ within work, and, third, ‘voice’ regarding the conditions under which care labour is provided.

scholarly journals The Employment of Migrant Workers in Long-Term Care: Dynamics of Choice and Control – ERRATUM

2011 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 231-231
Author(s):  
Isabel Shutes
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
London School ◽  
Term Care ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
And Control

Within the article by Shutes (first published online, 15 September 2011) the Author's affiliation was incorrectly inserted during the production process. The correct affiliation is the ESRC Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford, and the Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science. The publisher apologises for any inconvenience this has caused.

Lessons for regulating informal markets and implications for quality assurance – the case of migrant care workers in Austria

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 741-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
ANDREA E. SCHMIDT ◽  
JULIANE WINKELMANN ◽  
RICARDO RODRIGUES ◽  
KAI LEICHSENRING
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Family Care ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Care Workers

ABSTRACTThe rising number of private care arrangements in which live-in migrant care workers are engaged as a functional equivalent to family care calls for special attention by policy makers and formal long-term care providers on their implications for quality assurance and professional standards in the long-term care sector. Austria is one of the first countries in Europe where tangible legal measures have been taken to regulate this area under the heading of ‘24-hour care’, typically provided by middle-aged women. Reform measures went beyond policing and control mechanisms, including also incentives and tangible subsidies for all stakeholders. This paper contributes to a better understanding of their impact on the transition from informal to formal economy, focusing on quality assurance and working conditions. Based on empirical data and findings from semi-structured interviews with relevant stakeholders, a framework for the analysis of ‘illegal markets', based on Beckert and Wehinger's theory, is used to discuss potential implications in terms of valuation, competition and co-operation for policy in Austria, and to draw lessons for other countries. Results indicate that even after efforts to ‘legalise’ migrant care, the sector remains a ‘grey’ area within modern labour market legislation and quality management. This is due to the very nature of personal care, low professional status associated with care work and the reluctance of political stakeholders to regulate private household activities.

scholarly journals Policies of Personalisation in Norway and England: On the Impact of Political Context

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-496 ◽  
Author(s):  
KAREN CHRISTENSEN ◽  
DORIA PILLING
Keyword(s):  
Care Provider ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

AbstractWithin Europe, the Norwegian and English welfare states represent two different welfare regimes. Due to common demographic challenges of an ageing population as well as grass- roots pressures, particularly from disabled people, significant changes in the delivery of long-term care services for older and disabled people have taken place. This article focuses on the change towards personalisation policies encouraging greater choice and control in regard to care services, and uses the case of ‘cash-for-care’, which gives people an allocation of funding to meet their needs, to discuss conditions and implications of personalisation policies within different contexts. Based on a theoretical framework exploring a democratic and a market discourse of personalisation policies, the article provides a comparative analysis of the Norwegian and English cash-for-care schemes. While a crucial common change in the public sector's role towards at-arm’s-length long-term care services occurred, significant differences remain: while English residents are given greater choice and control from the beginning of the allocation of cash-for-care they also face more insecure circumstances due to the simultaneously stimulated care provider market. The Norwegian case, however, shows a possibility of increasing choice and control without a large diversity in a care provider market.

European Models of Long-Term Care in the Home and Community

1995 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara J. Coleman
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Efficient Delivery ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
And Control

In the 1980s, faced with a rapidly increasing elderly population and soaring costs of health and long-term care services, many European governments began to reexamine fiscal policies that often encouraged institutionalization of frail and dependent elders. A number of these countries have now turned to new models of home and community-based care. This report describes home care policies that serve the needs of frail elders in Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Great Britain, with special attention to experimental projects that have tested varying approaches for providing high quality, low-cost care in the home and in the community. The central governments in these countries have developed long-term care systems that improve quality of care, ensure more efficient delivery of services, and control or lower costs. They have (1) discouraged the building of additional nursing homes and instead supported the development and expansion of a range of housing alternatives; (2) shifted greater responsibility to local governments for delivering long-term care services, bringing those services closer to those who need them; (3) developed care management techniques that enable care providers to better target appropriate services to each elderly client; and (4) provided incentives for different types of care providers to coordinate their work, resulting in improved service delivery and greater client satisfaction.

scholarly journals Life Trajectories of Migrant Care Workers in the Long-Term Care Sectors in Norway and the UK

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 635-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Social Mobility ◽  
Long Term Care ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Ageing Population ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Life Trajectories ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The Uk

An ageing population in Europe is currently putting pressure on long-term care services, creating demand for foreign workers. Using a life-course perspective, this article aims to contribute to the understanding of how life trajectories shape decisions about migration and employment in social care. Based on fifty-one life story interviews with migrant care workers in Norway and UK, two typologies are found: a Norwegian migrant life trajectory of downwards social mobility combined with settlement and a British trajectory combining stronger downwards social mobility with further migration. The article contributes to the discussion of contextualised migratory lives involving care work.

Informal Caregivers As Long-Term Care Providers: Differential Experiences By Gender

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Navaie-Waliser ◽  
Aubrey L. Spriggs ◽  
Penny H. Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Long Term Care ◽  
Informal Caregivers ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Term Care
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