Producing (im)mobilities in home care for the elderly: the role of home care agencies in Switzerland
| Autor: | Huey Shy Chau |
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| Přispěvatelé: | University of Zurich, Chau, Huey Shy |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
Economic growth course Studies Health (social science) Migrant worker Mobilities mobilities 0507 social and economic geography Care Cultural geography Social Geography Accession Health(social science) span and Life Gender Studies intermediaries Intermediary Politics Life 050602 political science & public administration media_common.cataloged_instance 910 Geography & travel European union lcsh:Social sciences (General) Life-span and Life-course Studies Migration media_common 05 social sciences Social geography Cultural Geography 3316 Cultural Studies 0506 political science 3319 Life-span and Life-course Studies labour migration 3318 Gender Studies care worker 10122 Institute of Geography migrant care worker Care work lcsh:H1-99 Business 3306 Health (social science) home care 050703 geography Switzerland |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, Vol 13, Iss 2 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 1652-8670 |
| Popis: | The Free Movement of Persons Agreement has fostered the emergence of a new market for live-in care in Switzerland. Private care agencies recruit women from the European Union (EU) accession states and place them as live-in carers for the elderly in private households. This paper focuses on how these agencies organise these live-in care arrangements. Drawing on concepts of the politics of mobility, I analyse the production of (im)mobilities through the placement and recruitment practices of care agencies and the power relations that underlie live-in care arrangements. The findings show that live-in care is constituted both by mobilities, exemplified by care workers’ circular movements and need to be highly mobile, and by care workers’ immobilities once they start working in a household. The care workers’ mobility is in turn enabled by the agencies’ placement practices and by infrastructures specialised in their movements, which serve as moorings. |
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