The 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. 

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.